Rattigan v. Searing

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the board of canvassers of Cayuga county to state, declare and canvass certain votes in the first election district of the town of Moravia in said county.

The facts in this case are not in dispute. At the *156general election held on the 5th day of November, 1918, a standard voting machine was used in the first election district of said town of Moravia. At such election in said district 388 electors voted, all using said voting machine, and the counter of said machine recorded the fact that 388 persons, and only that number, voted…