People Ex Rel. Furlong v. Board of Election Commissioners

This suit was filed by a number of taxpayers and voters, as relators, in the superior court of Cook County, to mandamus the Board of Election Commissioners to use in the November 2,. 1948, general election regular paper ballots in place of, and in lieu of, voting machines, which had been purchased and approved for over four hundred voting-places. On October 29, 1948, the superior court granted the petition of relators and ordered the writ of mandamus to issue, commanding the Board of Election Commissioners to use the customary paper ballots in lieu of the voting machines on hand in the four…