More Inspection Men Said Needed - For every 19 Middletown votes cast Tuesday, one election worker was needed to guide ballots through a smooth trip from pads to locked metal boxes to counting tables to Board of Elections offices. Not all trips, however, were smooth. From 5 to 10 on election eve, county board member Martin Coyle and Frank Dobroszi, deputy clerk here, hopped from precinct to precinct, seeking the bumps that annually jar the movement of returns. They sought to discover the snags that, for example, made one unit fail to report in the 1952 Presidential campaign until 5 p.m. of the Wednesday following election day. Similar difficulties were not expected, of course, in this week’s local vote. But as he made his check, Coyle pointed out: "If we don't get things working right this year, we'll really be in trouble in 1954..."

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