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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1964
Poll Watchers Keep Sharp Eye Out For Hanky-Panky Near Ballot Boxes
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— Honest elections don't just happen, they result from each party keeping a beady eye on the other.
Thousands of Democratic and Republican poll watchers will be on duty election day to guard against hanky-danky at the ballot box.
The House Ballot Association, a non-partisan organization working for honest elections, estimates that 3 million votes are "lost or stolen" in every national election.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL Chairman Dean Burch charged recently that GOP candidate Richard M.
Nixon was deprived of the presidency in 1960 by "widespread vote frauds in key states." He said the Republican National Committee has organized an efficient "watchdog corps" with a "vote security officer" in each of the 50 states, to prevent "any repetition of the 1960 scandals and irregularities."
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said it also is making a major effort this year to prevent chicanery by stationing at least one poll watcher at every voting place.
A POLL WATCHER'S job is to
guard against any tampering with voting machines or stuffing of ballot boxes. He insures that voters are alone in the polling booths when they vote. He blows the whistle on any illegal electioneering within the immediate vicinity of the polls. On the positive side, he makes sure that no phony obstacles are placed in the way of members of his own party to keep them from voting.
One of the gross kinds of frauds, which poll watchers try to prevent, is multiple voting. Although "one man, one vote" is about as basic a principle of democracy as you can
imagine, there are plenty of precincts, especially in urban areas dominated by political machines, where people sometimes succeed in voting "early and often."
The trick is to vote once in your own name, and then several additional times in the names of citizens who have died or moved away since the last election but whose names are still on the registration rolls. The real cure for this fraud is careful screening of registration lists, but an eagle-eyed pollwatcher can help plug gaps.
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