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Show 4 JAILED IN N. Y. BALLOT FRAUD NEW YORK, Nov. 9 W Four canvasser! wera in jail today and 4500 ballots ware impounded a officials offi-cials pre wed an Investigation into charges of fraud In tabulating New York City! proportional representation representa-tion election of city councilmen a Week ago. The . canvassers two Democrats and two Republicans were ordered h eld lor me grand jury by Sylvester Ryan, acting district attorney of the Bronx, who began his own inquiry in-quiry into re porta of aabotaygtn vote counting. BaDota Impounded He impounded the ballots, he said, after a handwriting expert discovered discov-ered they had been changed since the count started. As 1680 canvasser in five armories armo-ries took up again the tedious, task of sorting the 2.000.000 proportional representation "P. R." ballots cast Jast Tuesday they were watched by an army of 150 police and scores of investigators ordered out by Mayor Flore llo H. LaGuardia and Paul Blanshard, commissioner of accounts. The ballots were cast under a new charter which provide! for a city council Instead of the present board of aldermen. The "P. R." provision tried previously pre-viously fry io-pthgr American "cTttes was designed to give representation representa-tion to minority groups and to smash machine control. Counting Slow A clause allowing voters to name more than one councilmanic choice slowed counting. Labor political leaders charged Republican and Democratic canvassers with changing chang-ing the ballots and deliberately "soldiering" "sol-diering" to delay the tallying as long as possible. Quarrels broke out between detectives de-tectives and the canvassers but there was no violence. Police were hissed by many of the election workers, seven of whom were discharged dis-charged in Brooklyn for tardiness. S. Howard Cohen, president of the board of elections, estimated the count costing the city approximately approxi-mately $20,000 a day might take until Thanksgiving day. |