Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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.
"As far as I am concerned, Mr. Hartnett (Thomas J. Hartnett, Secretary of the Election Commission) knows who the notary is," DeGuglielmo told the CRIMSON yesterday. He added: "The Clerk of Courts knows who he is."
(Middlesex County Clerk of Courts is Councillor Edward J. Sullivan, brother of candidate Walter J. Sullivan. An affidavit submitted Thursday to the County District Attorney's office stated that a shut-in woman's first place vote for councillor DeGuglielmo had been changed to a first place vote for Walter...
In her statement, the woman related a series of events that aroused her suspicions about a man who told her he was a notary public sent by the Election Commission to notarize the ballot, as required by law.
The statement goes on to say that an inspection by the woman and two Election Commission officials disclosed that the number "1" which she said was originally placed opposite the name of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo had been changed into a number "4." Further, the statement says, a new number "1...