Word: lawing
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...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...
When reached for comment, Hartnett cited an opinion by City Solicitor Richard Gerould that such action was against the law, which states that ballots should be left unopened. Hartnett said the election division of the Secretary of State's office supports this opinion...
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...
Flatly and, at times, angrily contradicting each other's arguments, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Professor of Law, and L. Brent Bozell, Washington correspondent for the National Review, clashed last night over the loyalty affidavit in the National Defense Education Act. The debate took place at the Boston College Law School Forum before a packed auditorium...
...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...