In re Wilber

At the general election held in the city of Binghamton on November 8, 1927, Cortland A. Wilber, the petitioner, was the Democratic candidate and the respondent, Norman A. Boyd, was the Republican candidate for mayor.

On the face of the returns Mr. Boyd was elected by a majority of 165, he receiving 10,850 votes and Mr. Wilber 10,685.

Voting machines were used in all of the forty-two election districts, the whole number of machines used being forty-nine.

Soon after the election certain discrepancies in the returns of some of the districts were claimed on the part of Mr. Wilber’s supporters and…