The School Election Scandal
Three men are arrested for alleged fraud during the recent school election, leading to accusations of spite and political score-settling.
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Robert Johnson and Richard Long, the two men who were indicted by the grand jury for alleged frauds at the recent school election and arrested immediately for the offense, were released on bonds of $500 each. Patrick Flynn, the third man indicted, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Thomas McCory in Blorah's saloon on Commercial street. All three were indicted upon complaint of William Cairns and C. A. Spriggs. Flynn is very indignant at his arrest and accuses Spriggs of being the repeater, claiming he only followed Spriggs' men to the polls to challenge them, and that his arrest was an act of retaliation.
“Flynn is very indignant at his arrest and accuses Spriggs of being the repeater.”
Allegations of voter fraud—and accusations that those claims are politically motivated—have echoed through Seattle's civic history for over a century. The tension between poll challengers and election workers is a persistent thread in the city's democratic discourse.
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