Lancaster City's Fifth Ward Election

Opinion by

Mk. Justice Sadler,

At the November election of 1923, the citizens of the Fifth Ward of Lancaster City balloted for a select councilman. The returns from the local board showed Lewis, the Democratic and coalition candidate, to be credited with a total of 869 votes, while his Republican opponent was noted as having received 861. Later, under the provisions of the Act of May 22, 1923, P. L. 309, the proper officer made known the result of the count of the “absent voters,” which added three to the total of the first named, and twenty for the latter, thus apparently causing the election…