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Pursuing charges made last week about possible tampering with absentee ballots, City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 will appear this morning in the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex County to ask for an "election inquest...
DeGuglielmo said his petition will name the notary he says is implicated in a shut-in woman's statement made Thursday about ballot tampering. The Councillor then will ask the Court to have the outer envelopes of all absentee ballots opened. (This does not reveal the actual ballots, but only a notarized envelope which in turn contains the ballot...
...City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 yesterday called on the Cambridge Board of Election Commissioners to launch an immediate investigation of alleged absentee ballot tampering in next Tuesday's municipal election...
...Middlesex County Clerk of Courts is Councillor Edward J. Sullivan, brother of candidate Walter J. Sullivan. An affidavit submitted Thursday to the County District Attorney's office stated that a shut-in woman's first place vote for councillor DeGuglielmo had been changed to a first place vote for Walter J. Sullivan. The statement also said a man with an artificial right hand came to the woman's apartment and claimed to be a notary public sent by the Election Commission...
...Anybody who's ever had anything to do with politics knows who the guy with the bum arm is," Councillor DeGuglielmo said. He thought the Election Commission was duty-bound to give the voters an honest election, and that it should check all ballots notarized by this person to see if they have in fact been altered...