A VOTING MACHINE.
Some time ago I (writes the New York correspondent of the Age) mentioned a voting machine that has the praises of all who had examined it. The new constitution of the State of New York permits the use of this machine wherever the local authorities may desire, and a few days ago it was tried at an election in a large town near this city, and all honest politicians of whatever party are delighted with it. The voter, enters a booth and confronts a series of knobs over which the names of candidates are pasted ; pulling a knob registers a vote, and the knob cannot be pushed back again to allow of another pull by the same voter. The illiterate man is provided for by the different' colors of the knobs for party distinctions, while the blind voter is guided by the shape of knobs. When the voter has voted for as many or as few candidates as he chooses, he opens the door and comes out; opening the door and closing it resets all the knobs and makes everything ready for the next man. There is absolutely no chance for fraud, and result of the the election is shown by a counting apparatus the moment the voting is over. The probabilities are that the Myers ballot machine, as it is called, will be in very general use in the course of the next few 5/ears.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1373, 20 August 1895, Page 5
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239A VOTING MACHINE. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1373, 20 August 1895, Page 5
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