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Show VOTING MACHINES f OR SALT LAKE Committee Recommends Purchase of forty for City and County. Salt Lake City and county are to have voting machines. At a meeting held today of a Joint committee from the City Council and the .County' Commissioners, It was agreed to recommend that forty Standard Stand-ard voting " machines be purchased by the city and county Jointly, thirty-six for use, In the city and four In the county outside. The County Commissioners are expected ex-pected to ratify the action of the committee com-mittee this afternoon and similar action on the part of the City Council Is expected ex-pected at tonight's meeting. The Standard 'machine has been on exhibition here . for several weeks and has received the approval of the Stato commission. The cost of the machines Is $750 each, and it is claimed that the machines will practically pay for themselves them-selves Inside of five years. |