What is the finding that most of the deputy returning officers, poll clerks and agents failed to take the oath of secrecy?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Re Brandon Election; Wallace v. Fleming, 1911 CanLII 327 (MB QB):
3. That most of the deputy returning officers, poll clerks and agents failed to take the oath of secrecy as to the marking of the ballots required by section 191, there being nothing to indicate that the officials did not, in fact, substantially maintain the secrecy of the ballot or that they permitted any invasion of that principle. Wynn v. Weston, (1907) 15 O.L.R. 1, followed.
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