Show WOULD PURCHASE VOTING MACHINES County Commissioners Take Initia Initiative Initiative tive five and and Wish the City to Cooperate WILL COST ABOUT COUNCIL APPOINTS SPECIAL COM COMMITTEE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE HEADED BY MAYOR By adopting unanimously a resol resolution I tion flon offered by Commissioner E D Mil Mu Miller Miller ler yesterday the board of county com corn commissioners commissioners missioners took the initiative in an effort to secure voting machines for use usein usein useIn in Salt Lake City at the next election and thereafter Information regarding the action of the commissioners was conveyed to the city council last night in a communication from County Clerk J U Eldredge jr and Mayor Ezra Thompson Councilmen T R Black and C J 3 Crabtree were appointed to confer with the commissioners on the matter The use of voting machines is author authorized authorIzed authorIzed by a law Is w enacted by the last legs lature Machines of the character re required required required by the law may be purchased and installed at a cost of from to 1000 eth e h There are voting districts in Salt Lake City so that the total cost of the machines required would not exceed and nd would probably be much less than that Th The county is willing to shoulder half the cost of the machines The advantages of voting machines are generally gen understood They do away with errors and make election electon contests impossible as the machine will not vote vole an illegal ballot Where a voter through ignorance undertakes to vote for foi two candidates for the same office or attempts to vote any other im improper improper Improper proper combination the machine re refuses refuses refuses fuses to reter The machines make for economy as aswell aswell well as accuracy The heavy expense entailed by long Jong hours of counting coUr ting after the polls close is eliminated by the use of machines which register the total vote for each candidate instantly after the polls pons close The committee named by the council last night will probably meet with Commissioners Miller mer W W Wilson and John C Mackay during the week eek and decide upon a recommendation r in the Hie 1 he matter |