Fast Time Proposition Gains 90 Votes Here

! Daylight Savings Time made a total gain of 90 votes in Washtenaw County's recount, which was completed yesterday. The gain came in the form of 54 more "yes" votes and 36 less "no" votes. The final totals certified by the County Board of Canvassers are 38,381 votes for Daylight Savings Time and 29,059 against it. Most of the changes were very small. The large changes were in Bridgewater Township and Manchester Township Precinct Two. In Bridgewater, the vote from the recount was certified as 132 yes and 240 no. The originally certified vote was 101 yes and 248 no. In Manchester, the recount established the vote totals at 266 yes and 337 no, while the original certificaten had 248 yes and 359 no. The only Ann Arbor ballots checked were the absentee votes in the Third Ward. There the recount total was 441 yes and 189 no, while the original count was 438 yes and 190 no. Eighty-seven absentee ballots cast in Northfield Township were not recounted because they eould not be found while the recount was going on. Northfield's vote of 544 to 580 against Daylight Savings Time wül stand as originally certified unless the State Board of Canvassers decides differently. County Clerk Robert M. Harrison gave details of the Northfield situation: Tuesday when the county canvassers and state elections officials opened the four voting machines in Northfield they found only the absentee ballots on a local proposition. A check Wednesday morning had the same result. Many of the 13 election workers who had signed a statement I election night that the ballots j were placed in the machines were questioned by telephone, j and one, a custodian of the I school where voting took place, I was questioned when he opened I the machines for the canvass-i ers. The canvassers were preparing to subpoena all 13 election workers to take testimony from them, when Harrison received a cali from Peter S. Kelley, supervisor of Northfield Township. Kelley said he had seen the ballots being placed in a machine and he was sure he could find them. The supervisor did find the ballots but not in the compartment where they were supposed to be placed. Each machine has two compartments, one for storage of ballots and the other for which election officials do nofusually have a key. This is called the custodian's compartment and contains machine equipment. Kelley brought the ballots found in the custodian's compartment to the clerk's office but they were not in a sealed container as is required. The Board of Canvassers, receiving them after the state officials had left, ruled that the unsealed ballots were not recountable. The clerk's office impounded the ballots, making them "a state exhibit" and locked them in a vault in the County Building. The parties which petitioned for the recount will lie notified of the situation. Only if they request it, will a ruling be made by the state director of elections on the recountability of the 87 absentee ballots. What apparently happened, Harrison said, was that about 4 a.m. when the local election officials finished counting, they tried to get the absentee ballots in the right compartment of the machine. They d i 'd n ' t fit because the ballots .were not folded and were nöt in their proper container, he said. So the custodian, who was also an election worker, opened his compartment for them and did not remember doing so afterward. "I can see how it happened but it should not have happened," Harrison said. He added that there were two other units included in the recount where items were "not in proper condition." The clerk said "all the things we have found will be gone over very carefully at the next election school. We want local election workers to know that these details are important." Members of the County Board of Canvassers who carried out the recount are Mrs. Peter B. Olmsted of Ann Arbor, chairman; Mrs. Gerald Post of Ypsilanti; Fred J. Looker, former Ann Arbor city clerk, and Gerhard Weinberg, also of Ann Arbor. State Elections Director Bernard Apol said today in Lansing that the recount throughout the state has cut to some 250 votes the 1,501-vote margin by which daylight savings time was defeated in the November election.