In re Houligan

This is a judicial investigation of alleged, void ballots cast at the annual election held in the city of Ogdensburg on the 6th day of November, 1906. The inspectors of election of district No. 1, in the third ward, returned eighteen ballots uncounted as void; and the inspectors of district No. 2, in the same ward, returned twenty-one ballots uncounted as void. The relator alleges that he and George E. Van Kennen were candidates for the office of alderman in that ward and these ballots should have been counted for one or the other.

The first question which arises relates to the citizens’…