Show DIVIDE I FOR ADDED ADDEn VOTERS VOTER City and County to Buy Ten TenS S New Machines to Handle Ballots FACILITIES ARE INADEQUATE Redistricting of City to F Follow ow Arrangement Soon to Be Made That the voting evils of the last ast cit city election eJection will be eradicated by added facilities for polling the vote voto Is shown by the action of oC the board rd of or county countr cor commissioners ml yesterday In instructing instructing in in- County Count Clerk Eldredge e to write to the city council for a Joint conference upon the proposition to buy bur ten more mor voting machines and add at least ten voting districts to the 11 u now in the city The action came as a result of or an opinion from Crom rota County Attorney Hanson Hanson Hanson Han Han- son who said that the law did not contemplate contemplate con con- template the m use e of moro more than one machine or more than one set of oC Judges es in any voting district Last fall the theote vote ote was so hea heavy henty in some omo districts that two machines w were used usell and even en these were not enough h to poll all oCth of oC th the vote within the given time In some crowded districts several persons were prevented from Crom voting h by 13 the rush that came carne almost at closing time Six Hundred to o In asking for the joint purchase of or often often orlen ten len new machines the tue count county commissioners commis commis- slon will arrange I for Cor the redistricting redistrict redistrict- Ing Ins of the cl city In Instead tead of or the forty forty- one voting districts it is the tue Intention to have ha ten more and this will mean about GOO COO votes otes to each district This number 1 I is about all that the machines an mn handle con l conveniently In tao no time b by law Jaw since in J Salt alt It Lake Ie there Is great difficulty experienced In gettinS' gettinS getting getting get get- ting tinS the thc voters to the polls In redistricting the city no political advantage will be gained s next fall all It ItIs ItIs Is a general election and those who voto vote In one part of the city will have havo before them the same form Corm of oC ballot as Is Js used In another This Is tit pot true truo of oC a city election in which the council council coun coun- cil vote ote Is taken As high as 1100 ot votes s were cast In some of or tho the districts last Jast fall Call and In every crowded district man many votes voteR were lost because e of or the inability to handle them before the legal time for Cor the thc closing of or the polls The heavy districts dis dis- will be br split up b by the redistricting redistrict redistrict- Ing and voting will vIli be facilitated b ba by bya a a. moro more uniform distribution Thin Thirty Thousand Votes Voles i It Is estimated that there are normally normally norm norm- ally aUr votes otes in Salt Sail Lake Lako Two years jears ago the three county chairmen met with tho the count county commissioners and arranged the redistricting of or tho the city and count county This work will have ha to be he reviewed because of the gain in voting strength not only In the city but in tho tue county It Is Js figured that In a national election the vote voto will be very heavy While there were ii votes cast In the elt city last fall it is estimated ed that 2000 votes were lost an nna that there was the tho usual percentage of or perRon per- per Ron eons unable or unwilling to vote The poll l books o ol of t the oJ Republican and American Am Am- tL parties showed 1 gu that there h were practically votes In tho the city Tho The city and county own Jointly 13 tI voting machines This J leaves two t in reserve for tor the city the city the county owns three machines and anti this number is Ina Inadequate equate The count county commissioners contemplate i conten-i- plato plate buying three or possibly five additional ad nd- machines If It this is done machines machines ma ma- chines will be placed at Sand Sandy Dingham Ding- Ding ham Junction and Sugar House three populous county districts The machines machines ma mn- chines cost apiece ce and the conference con con- terence ference with the council will determine whether the commissioners will Invest est In more |