Jackson County Allowed Indians to Vote, Then Threw Out Their Votes, Nov. 24, 1920

The Jackson county election board should have allowed the vote of those Indians to be counted, instead of throwing them out. The time to decide illegality of votes is before they are cast and the Indians were just as incompetent when they were allowed to vote as they were when their ballots were thrown out of the boxes. The Record trusts that the courts will hold this view of the case. The election laws should be construed so as to disqualify illiterate persons. But if they are permitted to vote, then their ballots should be counted. Action of the Jackson county board should be overruled. (From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Nov. 24, 1920)