Strange Errors.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Hawcra, last night. It is rumored in connection with the recount of tho Hawera eloction papers that tho deputy-returning officers in at least t.vo booths committed serious errors in doaling with the ballot papers. At Otakcho, it is said, tho wrong cornor of tho papers was turned down, leaving the voters’ numbers exposed, and this led to the wholo of tho votes, 130 in all, being disallowed. At Okaiawa, it is alleged, the deputy-returning officer did not put his stamp on the corner turned down, but imprinted it in tho centro of thc_ paper. This was not regarded as sufficiently serious to invalidate the votes. Had it been Mr McGuire’s 100 majority at this booth it would have been lost. The blunders do not affect tho oleetion. The Otakeho mistake took Mr McGuire’s miiority of 16 at that booth away, and increased Mr Major’s majority on the total by that many.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 13 December 1902, Page 3
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