Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on November 17, 1930.
LONDON DEMANDS VOTE RECOUNT
SAYS BALLOTS WERE REMOVED FROM POLLS
County Clerk, Defeated by Joseph L. Doyle, Democrat, by 62 Votes, Files Petition in Circuit Court.
3 COMMISSIONERS TO BE NAMED SOON
A recount of the vote cast in the November 4 election for the office of Porter county clerk was asked in a petition filed in the Porter circuit court Saturday by Mae R. London, present incumbent. According to the official returns, Mrs. London, running for re-election, was defeated by Joseph L. Doyle democrat, by sixty-two votes.
Mrs. London, in her petition, alleges that the election boards unlawfully and fraudulently permitted ballots and pencils to be removed from the polling places which were illegally done for the purpose of permitting and procuring illegal votes to be cast.
It is also asserted that persons were permitted to remain in the room where the votes were being counted who were not permitted under the law to be in the room.
The election boards in the forty-one precincts of the county are also charged with failing to count many legal ballots cast at the election, and permitted persons to vote whose right to do so had been duly and legally challenged.
Hedge Grant Crumpacker ordered the recount, and will name three commissioners within a few days. Two of the commissioners will be selected from republicans and one from democrats.
Counting and examination of the ballots cast at the November 4 election will require four or five days, it is estimated. In addition to the duty of examining the ballots counted by the board, those thrown out as mutilated must be examined and passed upon.
Mrs. London was apparently defeated by Doyle by a vote of 3,789 to 3,727.
