Electoral Vote All In.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 26, 1913:
All Mailed Copies of State Returns Received with Time to Spare. Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— With two days yet remaining of the time the law allows, the electoral vote of all the States has been filed with the President pro tempore of the Senate. The law requires that from each State two copies of the official electoral vote shall be sent to Washington — one by mail and one by messenger — either of these copies without the other being sufficient evidence of the result. To be counted, the vote must be received in Washington not later than the last Monday in January. All mailed copies have been received, while messengers from forty States have also filed additional copies.
    The ballots will be canvassed officially in the hall of the House of Representatives, on Feb. 12, the second Wednesday of the month. The sealed envelopes from the various States have not been opened, but there is practically no possibility of the result being found in any respect different from that already unofficially announced — Wilson, 435; Roosevelt, 88; and Taft, 8. Even a technical error in the returns would hardly invalidate a States vote. Four years ago some Western State recorded its vote for James S. Sherman as if he came from that State instead of from New York. But on motion of Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas the error was disregarded and the vote counted.