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Show 15TIX0 nv Y'tM.U. l''i'.c. (ho AuiuMirh I allot jiUmliMbr ,iHptIat,vloni In thU count fU'4 InvarULIr JU 'lithe-1H, ." lh voter found l. ' iHto pic-, . imn of hl " ' l Ihfl ,). bitio. r rn n -iiR h of v.tt, T'ti D'J h "w p .nMimil In tt r rirarkACQ then It wn not .Iwnygiuo ccful, bccKune efcii idurtej raoiii uiftitublunderi. After he alfctton tho totting in-J countlnj; wh anothfrtcillou progrf, kuJ liko the Totrrs the rlectloa ofllcer tniJe roll Ubit. Now, tctenceromfi to the rtscuo of the Au-tntUn Pjitrm, aoil ttli of the defect mtntloneJ ro llkflj tolrrmp0lrii.5i Kchtl'inn nntiieJ Mjrn hai Itituntml votlnj mtchlne which, It lit rlAitneO, will prevent error an J frauj, nuJ vvoti help the vottr to be honnt. It wai hrlej allu Ifd to tnourolummon Tuei1ey m trlml at an election recently htM In Lock port, New York, unJ where It reallzeJ all that waivAlntninJ far it. The mbUilne ! oaoitructe 1 upon the principle or a cut. rellr. On IU face are a niimttr of buttjua, the nanto of r candidate being mtrkeJ above oach. The voter irtMei the button reprifentlnfchlti cand Idatr.whoM name Ulmnicdlateljr ttamjed on the hett below, Atthaaamn time the btittom reireKrntlnfr all other candidates for tint olllcu are locked by the movement which the voter maVei In p renin hit button. Thin prevents a voter from voting for more than one penon for the earav olllce, and It o prevents repetition. When the voter leaves the booth, and cloies the door, the machine then automatically releaie all the buttons but-tons and Is ready for the next. Hie machine Is a vty Intricate contrivance, and only a personal In lection, or erhi elaboratedlasramf, could make Its features understood. At the Lockport election twenty candl dates were voted for. The slowest voter took two minutes, nnd the ijulckest ulne teconds, to record hi vote. fhereMiltof the election wai known ten minutes aftfr the laitman had cast his vote. There Is on the face of the machine an Index vlstblo to everybody which shows the total vote cait, but not the ioll Ileal character charac-ter of the ballots. A great, Ural Js expected from this machine, and one feat In particular Is claimed for it, tbat Is, It will absolute. ly kill tho old "maoltlm," which couutud, faMfled and repeated at elections. |