AUTOMATIC VOTING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 13

AUTOMATIC VOTING

■ A; demonstration was given to Miiiisters; of the Crown and inethbers of both Houses of the Legislature at the Par.liament Buildings this morning of a deyic^'the invention of Mr. Samuel Millar, ".(yf Gore;' for : the automatic recording of election /votos. The demonstration -was watched by a large Hum,ber.jof interested members of the Legislature and others, and many questions were-asked as to the-possibility bf manipulation of, the machine or of other illegal-practice in the recording Of,the votes.

'.; ...The machine is contained in a small cabinet, and the voter, on entering tho booth, is confronted; with a strip of white paper on the machine, with the names of the candidates or of the issues concerned set opposite. The vote is recorded by' pressure ■ Upon; a key opposite 1 the name or issue for which it is desired to vote, and the machine is so .adjusted tha,t it is impossible to vote for more than one issue, thus avoiding informal; voting. Tho registration number of tie voter is marked by the returning "officer; at the end of the voting strip before the voter acts, and is then automatically gummed over by the machine. The machino keeps a progressive tally of the number of votes recorded for each issue, so that at the end of the day the result of tho poll is ascertainable., immediately^ It is .claimed that the machine is absolutely .".fool-proof," and that it is adaptable. to ; preferential voting or to all rcgnliementa 'oj tha modern.