| Show courts must decide on validity of votes attorney general rules board of canvassers complete check of district no 5 indicate a recount of votes will probably be called three morgan county election results apparently have been reversed as the result of an official canvass conducted tuesday by the morgan county board of canvassers in north morgan forgan A district no 5 the official canvass apparently changes the outcome of three contests for four year commissioner lincoln jensen R james T palmer L G i for or two year commissioner wesley anderson D golden porter R and for county treasurer leonn D grover D frank L whittier R a loss of 50 votes rotes for palmer and anderson and 1 1 I for whittier validity of the votes will have to be determined I 1 by the courts according to an opinion by S D huffaker deputy attorney general so the canvass results cannot yet be accepted as official morgan coun ty commissioners who make up the board of canvassers said a recount of the votes wit wil probably be called discrepancies in tabulations in district no 3 5 north morgan necessitated the action only other error revealed by the ahe canvass with the exception of the above district was a loss of five votes for coun county t Y clerk anna sommers the question of validity of the votes arose when it was discovered that in district no 5 the tally theet computation of block votes did not agree with the number of votes given candidates on the total vote sheet signed by the judges of election in face of this conflict the morgan board of canvassers canvassers asked the attorney general for a ruling A cording according e to deputy huffaker the validity of the votes is a matter for the courts to decide since it is not a function of the board of canvassers to determine legal matters I 1 following are the unofficial returns of the election and the result remit of the canvass I 1 boffi cial returns canvass canvass office i U b S senator Al murdock D 34 watkins R U u S congress granger D wilson R as justice supreme court larson D 52 latimer R 2 state tate senator db hopkin D 66 3 cummings R 2 aj state tate representative wilkinson D williams R 50 tour nur year commissioner palmer D jensen R 29 KM T v year oear o 0 ear commissioner anderson D fidio porter R 53 sheriff dahlquist D clerk erk and recorder robinson D sommers R 7 94 treasurer grover D 5 whittier R 50 08 3 seasor compton D turner R 25 attorney Ut orney miles abiles D ofis heiner R ca surveyor Urve clark k D GO |
