For Verification of Registration Lists
A Nebraska legislative committee advanced a bill requiring landlords and boarding-house keepers to swear statements of who lived under their roof before elections, a forgotten anti-fraud measure aimed at Omaha's Douglas County.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Page 1
From a Staff Correspondent1 min readLINCOLN, Feb. 20.
The privileges and elections committee of the house reported out the verification registration bill introduced by the Douglas county delegation to apply to Omaha, with a recommendation for its passage.
The bill provides for a sworn statement from hotel, rooming house and boarding house keepers thirty days before election, showing all voters at their place of business or living under their roof. This is filed with the election commissioner and verification of the registration list made.
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