Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-23 | Page 1 | Relief Clients Face Vote Ban

RELIEF CLIENTS FACE VOTE BAN Maine Law Hits Aid Recipients W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 23 UP UP- UP Investigators for the senate campaign campaign campaign cam cam- expenditures committee re reported reported se- se ported today thousands of t l M Maine voters have been with disqualification because they were recipients of relief The committee issued an official announcement in which it asserted the investigators reported many voters voters' voters vot vot- ers era failed to register and vote because because because be be- cause they had been told they would be challenged as paupers Classed as r Paupers Responsibility for the ruling that relief recipients had been classified as paupers and barred from voting voting voting vot vot- ing under a state law was placed on Maine Maine Attorney General Clyde R. R Chapman in the committee an an- Senator Augustine Lonergan D. D Conn committee chairman said sale the report had bad been referred to Committee Counsel Walter Myers for an opinion I i I I I I I i I I Investigators reported that voters voters voters vot vot- ers were threatened by statements from election officials ls to the effect that they would not be eligible to toI vote the announcement said and andI that these statements were supported support support- ed by a letter from front the office of ol the state attorney general reported to be an opinion holding that II The person who receives pauper supplies from a town at any time within six months is not entitled to vote Within Statute 4 Those who are on emergency relief are deemed to be paupers within the meaning of ot the statute and while relief is really paid forby for forby forby by the state the same law applies as though it was paid by the town Lonergan said complaints of this opinion had been made just after the Main election These charged that the attorney generals general's opinion did not recognize a revision of the law passed March 28 1933 in which it was provided no person should be classed as a pauper for having received funds for his care support medical o or surgical treatment or education