DeLong v. Brown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Tama District Court.- — Hon. Obed Caswell, Judge. Election contest over tbe office of county superintendent of schools. Erom judgment .declaring contestant elected, the incumbent appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
*3721 2 *371The statute requires the auditor to carefully preserve the ballots received1 from the judges of election for six months. Section 1142, Code. The particular manner or place is not pointed out. If carefully done, this precludes any reasonably well founded suspicion that they may *372have been changed or tampered with, and in such event they form the best evidence of who has been elected. With their integrity thus fully established, they are silent witnesses which can neither err nor lie. And it is generally held, where the manner or mode of preservation has been enjoined! by statute, a…
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