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Senator Tobey was all set to blaze away, but it looked as if he would have no chance. Just before he took position, it was announced that a county official had burned the Hudson County 1936 and 1937 poll books (which voters must sign as they vote and which were said to contain evidence of forgery). But Senator Tobey's beater, Investigator H. Ralph Burton, did his best to give the Senator something to shoot at. Burton scared up many a gamy allegation. Samples...
...sometimes contained from five to 20% fraudulent votes. Hudson County voters were moved temporarily into hotels and rooming houses to vote in districts where it would do the most good. In "a tremendous number of instances," signatures in the registration book differed from signatures in the 1938 and 1939 poll books. One woman whose signature appeared in the poll books swore to Mr. Burton she had not voted "in many years." She was blind...
After getting Charles F. Stoebling, former county commissioner of registration, to concede reluctantly that it was a "fraud" for three men to write in the same name 60 times in the poll books, Senator Tobey let go with both barrels, roared...
...reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below the final results (Hurja said 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt; result: 523). Mr. Hurja afterwards left the New Deal, lost his power to check with precinct committeemen. 2) Mr. Hurja, as a sideline, owns the Edward J. Wall poll, which last week showed Roosevelt ahead in popular vote...
...Nearly all Midwest polls-Chicago Tribune, Columbus Dispatch, Scripps-Howard's Ohio poll, etc.-showed sharp Willkie gains...