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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Newburyport, the Selectmen adopted a practice of reading votes aloud as they were cast, undermining the secrecy of balloting and reportedly causing more than 100 Republican votes to be lost. The legality of the town's votes under these circumstances is questioned.
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that the Selectmen adopted a new and unprecedented principle in the manner of voting in that town. Our letters inform us,
that the Selectmen, as the votes came in,
took them up, and read them aloud to the
meeting, thus doing away the intent of balloting; which is, that every man should
vote his own sentiments, without the possibility to being biased. It is said that
more than one hundred Republican votes
were lost by this manner of proceeding!
Will the votes of that town under these
circumstances, be considered as legally given
in?
Even Register.
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Newburyport
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more than one hundred republican votes were lost
Event Details
The Selectmen adopted a new and unprecedented principle in the manner of voting in that town. As the votes came in, the Selectmen took them up, and read them aloud to the meeting, thus doing away the intent of balloting; which is, that every man should vote his own sentiments, without the possibility to being biased. Will the votes of that town under these circumstances, be considered as legally given in?