Word: samp
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Voter turnout in Harvard area precincts was moderate to heavy yesterday, with about 55 per cent turnout reported by 7:30 p.m., a significant increase over the turnout in the last gubernatorial election four years ago, Edward J. Samp, one of Cambridge's four election commissioners, said yesterday...
...Samp, a first-year Business student, said the increase in previous experience would tend to reflect higher starting salaries at graduation. Samp said he made more than $22,000 during the first eight months of this year...
Meanwhile, the election commission is revising its ballot-counting procedure and replacing old ballot boxes in response to fraud charges in the race last March for Democratic State Committeeman. Edward Samp, an election commissioner, said yesterday that a police investigation had uncovered no fraud in that race, but illegalities were "possible" under the old system...
...since former commissioner Francis R. Burns lost his September 9 appeal to void the appointment of his replacement, George Goverman. The City Manager appointed Goverman after his election in March by the Democratic City Committee. Burns forced a reelection in May, then twice unsuccessfully contested the Democrats' election rules; Samp said he did not think Burns would appeal further...
...Samp said that absentee ballots in Cambridge are reserved for invalids, and must be signed by a notary public in the presence of the voter. He added that Stewart's campaign workers had allegedly collected absentee ballots and given them to a notary, who had signed them all at once...