Excerpt from Reports of Contested Election Cases in the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Years 1886-1897: Together With the Opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court Relating to Such Elections Senate Document, no. 19. Jan. 29, 1886. Report by all the committee. Recount of Votes. The votes cast for senator in a town in the district Will not be recounted by the Senate unless evidence is produced of such a nature as to satisfy the Senate that there was probable cause to believe that a mistake had been made in ascertaining or assuming the result of the vote for senator sufficiently large to change the result of the election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.