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DeGuglielmo said his petition will name the notary he says is implicated in a shut-in woman's statement made Thursday about ballot tampering. The Councillor then will ask the Court to have the outer envelopes of all absentee ballots opened. (This does not reveal the actual ballots, but only a notarized envelope which in turn contains the ballot...
City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 yesterday called on the Cambridge Board of Election Commissioners to launch an immediate investigation of alleged absentee ballot tampering in next Tuesday's municipal election...
...letter to the Commission, DeGuglielmo specifically requests that since the notary who allegedly handled a disputed ballot has also handled many other absentee ballots, the Commission should "re-submit all ballots notarized by this individual to the original voters for inspection and verification...
Election law requires an absentee voter to seal his ballot in an envelope, which is then notarized. This envelope is placed in an outer envelope, which is also sealed. DeGuglielmo said he proposed to the Commission that it open these outer envelopes, identify the notarizer, and if a ballot has been notarized by the man in question, then the Commission should tell each absentee voter there may have been some tampering with his ballot...
DeGuglielmo maintained that the Commission could within the bounds of state law, open the outer envelope, and could then ask the individual voter if he wanted his ballot inspected...