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...went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer a burglary call one night was dismayed to discover that his was the first, and only, car to reach the scene. Said he: "The other guys were all zonked...
...Rhode Island the NDC called a meeting earlier this fall to which it invited about 200 of the most active Kennedy and McCarthy supporters. More than 1000 people showed up. Similar scenes have been repeated in Arizona and Washington. Many of these people are going to work at the precinct level to win control of party organizations...
There are approximately 200 public and private polling organizations in the United States today; and most of the reputable ones have similar methods for conducting their surveys. The Gallup poll uses 300 sample precincts throughout the nation. These are chosen at random with the stipulation that the number in cities, towns, and rural areas be proportionate to the percentage of the population living in such areas. A Gallup interviewer, usually a housewife working part-time, is assigned to each precinct and told to start at a specific, randomly selected household and move from house to house until she has five...
...typical precinct in the 24th Ward, he reported, the voting was dominated by one man, the Democratic precinct captain. "A nod from the precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus...
After they cast their ballots, many voters were given white chits by the precinct captains. Chit in hand, each voter then left the polling place and entered an alley. Novak did not follow for fear of his own safety, but he implied that Chicago still has the best voters that money can buy. This was the kind of performance that has come to be expected of the Evans-Novak team, which avoids pontificating and concentrates on examining the inner machinery of politics. Evans and Novak were not alone in discovering election irregularities in Chicago. The Chicago Daily News reported that...