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Iowa--Application may be made up to and including the tenth day preceding election by writing the commissioner of registration to have name entered upon the poll list and register of precinct. Applicant may mail to commissioner his application and an affidavit in substantially the form provided in the law and giving facts about the location of his residence, naturalization, qualifications for voting, the reason for being unable to register personally, name, place of birth, color, residence in the state, in the United States, and in the election precinct, occupation, etc. Upon receipt of such an application, the commissioner...
...registration is now permitted only in cities and towns having a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants. Not less than ten days before election day elector may make written application for a certificate to the county clerk. The application must give the elector's name, age, residence, voting precinct or ward, state that he is a qualified voter there, the name of the political party with which he is affiliated, and that he is unavoidably absent from his ward or precinct on the last general registration held there. The application must be signed by the applicant and sworn...
...becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were...
...Manhattan. Mrs. Pratt's opponent, Phelps Phelps, is experienced and determined. Politics is a passion with him. He is a sort of Republican Tammanyite who spends all but a fragment of the $70,000 per annum or so which his father left him, on presents for his precinct voters-milk, Christmas stockings, coal, Easter eggs...
...York. Outside of New York City, persons who registered and voted in the last general election (1924) need not reregister. In New York City, voters must re-register for every general election. Precinct boards sit every Saturday, or on days posted locally, until two weeks before election...