NEW MODE OF VOTING

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5310, 3 October 1885, Page 3

NEW MODE OF VOTING

Many members of Parliament were invested on July 8 in examining a fullflized working n^odel which has been .©repted in the Conference-room of the House of Commons, of a new style of polling-booth, which claims to provide a simple self-acting mode of ascertaining, with unerring exactness, the result of a parliamentary, municipal, or other election by ballot, as soon as the poll is closed, whereby complete accuracy is secured, secrecy is fulfilled, and illiterate voters paperß, as at present, a metal disc or quoit ib used, numbering consecutively from 1 upwards. The voter will advance to the , front of ;the table of the presiding officer, and on proof that he stands numbered on the register, ].'s6 the satisfaction of the presiding officer, he hands the disc No. 1 to the voter, ( and ( directs him to. the .small secret; chamber,provided, in the same way "where., tiie voter deposits his vote. To assist an .illiterate voter each candidate — supposing^ , there are three— previously selects a color, and the vpter, on entering the secret chamber, faces three small doors painted with these colors. .. He. advances to the door bearing the, color of his candidate, excluding himself by a self-acting process from the other doors,, and deposits his vote in a slot prepared for it, while a numbering instrument, covered and sealed registers the vote, for that candidate. More than 10 .electors, can record their vote in one minute at one secret chamber, and several such chambers can be working in the same room if necessary.