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The Planet emphasizes the racism of the Richmond Dispatch and talks about their “chronic attacks of Negro-phobia.”

A white special constable was caught defrauding a colored man out of his ballot, but the case was never sent to the grand jury.

The Attorney General of Virginia argues that it is lawful to present several types of ballots, though the law states that there should only be one.

The Planet poses questions regarding the fairness of elections in the Richmond area.

A meeting was held in New York to discuss suffrage, and the goal was to achieve "righteous liberty of political action without distinction or color.

Men are convicted of electoral fraud in precincts in Henrico county, and receive a fine of $10 and one day in jail.

Votes for a primary election in Henrico County, Virginia, are publicly being sold without challenges to the lawfulness of the act.

Maryland disenfranchises 30,000 “Negroes” through literacy tests.

Mitchell condemns the Richmond Times Dispatch for inconsistencies, and says that it has "dropped to the advocacy of a national wrong."

The Democratic Party of Virginia” holds an “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” to discuss how blacks are the “‘hindering cause’ in the way of a pure election”.