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Show DE VALERA FIGHTS ELECTION METHODS I I'l'BLlN. April 12. EJannonn di Valera will challenge, the validity ! the forthcoming lrl-h elections on the 1 Kround that the reniim of voters is j defective. Both at the dal1 sessions! and in correspondence with President! Orlfflth he has contended .hat the I register is stale, m luding many names that ought to be removed md omitting many names that ought to be Included. His correspondence has demanded the Immediate prepar.iion ol in iii-to-date register but the .'demand was resisted on the ground 'hat it woufd be certain to deliv th-- cle-ticn whlrh the free Eltaters desire to hold at the earliest poss'bie date. It l admitted that ow i ig to the condi-! tions of conflict that prevailed in Ire'. 1 land last year the ordinary work of' rei -iuk the register was not uniform'-! ly performed; According to Mr .. Valera th. ' error affect . tens of thousands of names. in the few district where I revision was carefully done the changes made amount roughly to about 16 per cent. ' |