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Show PRINTER FINTS WAY TO . v BEAT VOTING MACHINE. CHICAGO. Nov. 1. A dispatch to the Tribune from Ssn Francisco, Cal.. says: The voting machine to be used at the coming municipal election November 7 was given a test before a committee representing rep-resenting the f usionists. as it had been claimed that it was possible to beat the machine. A linotype operator on a newspaper showed that by placing a small rubber band in a certain place near the name of the fusion candidate for Mayor the machine ma-chine would not register for the Mayor, though it would for all the other candidates. candi-dates. An expert representing the machine company and half a dosen newspaper men were unable to make the machine register while the rubber band was in place. |