Show VOTING MACHINE TESTED Officials Experiment With an Invention Invention V tion That Enables Voters to Rap Rapidly Rapidly V idly Cast Their Ballots Ball ts V The center of attraction at the V city elty and county c building yesterday was a United States Standard voting machine which was set up in the t e office off ce of the morn morning mornIng morning ing S O 0 Hamilton representing resentIng re the manufacturers explained the machine to toa toa toa a committee composed of the county com corn commissioners commissioners missioners Mayor or Ezra Thompson and Councilmen C J Crabtree and W Mont Ferry Ferr The state voting machine com corn commission commission mission of which Governor Cutler Is chairman will meet Friday to determine whether or not the machine ma hine complies with the state law V Six men who had not tested the ma machine machine machine chine before voted in 46 seconds yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day after it had been explained to them Three of them voted straight tickets and three voted split tickets The machine Is so arranged that no person can vote for two men for the same office orrIce no man can vote twice it is arranged with a 1 secret count which when exposed locks lock the front of the machine so 50 that no further votes can be cast castA castA castA A machine which will permit each voter to cast his ballot for tor fifty can candidates candIdates candidates will cost The agent contends that forty machines will be ample for forthe forthe forthe the ninety or more voting precincts ol ot of Salt SaIt Lake county This would be a cost of and it Is proposed if it the ma machines machines machines chines are bought that the city and coun county county county ty shall bear the expense about equally The company is willing to take the pur purchase purchase purchase chase price In yearly payments for tor ten years |