| Summary: | According to notes accompanying the image, the women are Bernice Taylor, Grace Fleming, and Mary Speer. The ballots were awaiting a decision by Judge U. W. Clemon about whether Representative John Buchanan could be included as a candidate for the Whig Party. Buchanan, who had served in the U.S. House for 16 years, was nominated as a Whig after he lost the Republican primary. Secretary of State Don Siegelman refused to certify the nomination because it had occurred past the deadline, but Judge Clemon ruled in favor of Buchanan. Ultimately, however, Clemon's decision was overturned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (a further appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was unsuccessful).
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