Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middlesex County District Attorney John J. Droney yesterday ordered an immediate investigation of Cambridge Civic Association allegations that an absentee ballot cast in the Cambridge city election may have been tampered with...
...through its president, Hans F. Loeser, presented to the District Attorney a signed statement from a lady--a shut-in, who has voted by absentee ballot--which asserts that her first-choice vote for a CCA-endorsed candidate had been changed to a first-choice vote for Walter J. Sullivan, a candidate not endorsed by the Association...
...statement, the woman related a series of events that aroused her suspicions about a man who told her he was a notary public sent by the Election Commission to notarize the ballot, as required...
...know that I did not vote for Walter Sullivan and that he ended up with the 1st vote as the ballot was changed," the woman's statement asserts...
...statement lists (5) a return call by the woman to the Commission office thanking them for sending a notary; at the same time, a Commission employee said the office had not sent any notary. Also, the statement says the man who came to the apartment offered to mail the ballot himself...