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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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City commission discusses consolidating city and county voter registration books during Monday night meeting but faces obstacles until 1959; attorney tasked with studying legality amid concerns over closed books and unreturned voter cards.
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Consolidation of city and county registration books seems to have hit a dead end street, at least until 1959.
The matter was discussed at the city commission meeting on Monday night when City Commissioner Joe Fernandez asked that a deputy city registrar be assigned to the office of the county supervisor of registration during the current re-registration activities.
William "Billy" Freeman, county supervisor, said that his office was too small to accommodate the additional furniture and employees.
City Supervisor of Registration Victor Lowe pointed out that the city registration books are now closed and could not be reopened until January of 1959.
Fernandez maintained that the placing of a clerk at the county office and receiving registrations there would not constitute a re-opening of the books.
The matter was fully discussed and the city attorney was directed to make a study of the existing laws to determine whether such a procedure would be legal.
During the discussion, it was pointed out that many of the cards mailed out at the beginning of the year to voters registered in the city had not been returned and that the removal of those names from the list would be unfair to the voters.
Lowe told the commission that he planned to request authority to publish the names removed from the list "sometime later this year."
Municipal elections are governed by state laws and any change would, necessarily, be a matter for the state legislature.
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the matter was fully discussed and the city attorney was directed to make a study of the existing laws to determine whether such a procedure would be legal. consolidation seems to have hit a dead end street, at least until 1959.
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Consolidation of city and county registration books seems to have hit a dead end street, at least until 1959. The matter was discussed at the city commission meeting on Monday night when City Commissioner Joe Fernandez asked that a deputy city registrar be assigned to the office of the county supervisor of registration during the current re-registration activities. William "Billy" Freeman, county supervisor, said that his office was too small to accommodate the additional furniture and employees. City Supervisor of Registration Victor Lowe pointed out that the city registration books are now closed and could not be reopened until January of 1959. Fernandez maintained that the placing of a clerk at the county office and receiving registrations there would not constitute a re-opening of the books. During the discussion, it was pointed out that many of the cards mailed out at the beginning of the year to voters registered in the city had not been returned and that the removal of those names from the list would be unfair to the voters. Lowe told the commission that he planned to request authority to publish the names removed from the list "sometime later this year." Municipal elections are governed by state laws and any change would, necessarily, be a matter for the state legislature.