Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1917 — Ruling on Election Law. [ARTICLE]

Ruling on Election Law.

Indianapolis, April 27. —Voters Cannot cast their ballots in the city election next November under the provisions of the absent voters’ act of the last legislature, according to an interpretation of the law given to Governor Goodrich by a commission composed of W. N. Thompson, W. W. Spender and Attorney General Stansbury. The commission holds the absent voters act applies to general, special and primary elections, but not to municipal elections. The commission also ruled that women may become delegates to the constitutional convention.