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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 12

In Japanese saw* the tMfh point towards the handle. William Madder, of Wellington, 'has invented an automatic ballot-box, which is very ingenious, and has much to commend it on the seose of simplicity;. Under this invention the voter, on giving his name or number to the returning officer or his deputy, is furnished with metal balls corresponding with the number of candidates to be elected, and he drops the marble* into openings in the box underneath the candidates’ names he desires to vote for, and retires. Each ball, as it passes in, falls upon the periphery of . a pallet-wheel and forms a balance weight, by which the wheel revolves a certain distance, an action which automatically register® a number on a cyclometer. The ball, immediately it has done it® work, runs back to the official by a channel, anti so may be used over and over again. If a person does not desire to vote for as many candidates as he may, there is a “waste slot” to put marbles in. Mr Madder maintains) that Ms machine cannot be tampered with, and its adoption would save the delay of scanting voting papers after the close of the poll. The invention is to be exhibited mem here of Parliament to-day.