Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Court Decides Voter Who Did Not Register Gets Ballot On Nov. 7. [ARTICLE]

Court Decides Voter Who Did Not Register Gets Ballot On Nov. 7.

Huntington, Ind., Oct. 25.—W. D. Hamer, special judge, decided this afternoon that the name of Heber Harter should be entered on the registration records of precinct 3, Huntington township, and ordered County Auditor Ovid Eviston, defendant in Harter’s mandamus action, to make the entry. Eviston had refused because Harter did not register in person or by affidavit. Harter was out of the city. Hamer’s decision nullifies the interpretation of the registration law under which the political parties have proceeded. Claude Cline, county attorney, was granted an appeal and an effort will be made to file briefs at once and obtain a ruling from the supreme court before the election.