Vicars v. Stokely

It appears from the ninth paragraph of the judgment that when the ballot boxes were opened it was discovered that 300 stubs in the various stub boxes were not signed by any voter. Twenty-four of the ballots with unsigned stubs were declared to be illegal, because not properly marked, 112 were votes, for contestant, and 164 were votes for contestee, thus contestee had a net loss of 52 votes because of unsigned stubs, sufficient to change the result of the election.

Art. 8.15, Vernon’s Election Code, provides that the voter shall sign his stub and place it in the stub box. This article further…