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lt;AP Wircphoto)Continue AbsenteeRandInquiry At LaredoLAREDO, Aug. 2 (*V A key witness testified today that even If signature's on applications for and on absentee ballot affidavits did not correspond he would sec no reason for throwing the ballot out.He was Tom Goodwin, presiding judge at a special canvassing boa d which eh Red absentee ballot i* Webb Coi ni underAC*II u'gW*(. w H,larities.Sympathies With ClubGoodwin first said he belonged to no local party. Later he said, “I am Old Party and my sympathies lie with the Independent Club.”The Independent Club is known as the Olt\ Party in I^aredo and is opposed by the Reform Party whose members filed affidavitsHuge Juvenile Auio Theft Ring Believed Crackedalleging irregularities in absentee voting.Goodwin had cross - examined Wednesday’s only witness, A. W. Gatea, a Laredo rancher. Good win asked if Gates had mailed out applications to persons who might vote absentee. #Mailed In IjtrotlnGates said he did but they were only applications to persona who you Id have been ou* of the city at the time of the July 28 primary.The Reform Party’s main objection is that so many absentee ballots w'ere mailed from within Laredo.And on the stand today. Goodwin, a son-in-law to 49th Dist. Judge R. D. Wright, who is conducting another court of inquiry on the same subject, agreed with Gates that most notaries who handled absentee ballots were either city or county employes.He agreed with Gates that city and county officials and employes and members of the Independent Club. But said he did not know if they were required to have guaranteed votes to keep their jobs or “kickback 3 per cent ofWedrmeritand tMestrucirecrumarc six di As with press on diPu] rows pert at th tlve lt;lm:CoFiiCoiginn«ceivepany Thur Th la mi ens. pulle bale, the cotto A last HereSee LAREDO, Page 3
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Corsicana Semi Weekly Light
Corsicana, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1956
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