Wheeler v. Grimes

Section 18 of the charter of the City of Dover, (Laws 1929, c. 329, s. 18), after providing for the preservation of all ballots cast at any city election, and after providing that such ballots, after counting by the ward officers in the several wards, shall be at once sealed up and delivered to the City Clerk, reads as follows: “Such ballots shall be preserved by the city clerk for thirty days with the seals unbroken, except that they shall be subject during that time to the examination of either branch of the city government, in determining the election of its own members, and the board of…