| Show y w STOPS CROOKED VOTING italian civil engineer invents the to foil ballot box staffers rome european ballot box atuf fers who are as expert as any ot bosa tweeds henchmen ever were in the pal days of corruption in new york politics soon will find their oc cu gone an italian civil en gincer gagiano Go giano haa invented a voting machine it is claimed la absolutely and ancor rup tible he calls this invention the so complete and satis new voting machine factory has this machine proved that it had beeri adopted by both the italian and the french governments the Is a little over a yard in height and Is provided with as many openings as there are bandl dates in the field the voter presents his card to an official who has charge of the voting booth and receives a small metal chip about the size of an american dime he Is then given permission to enter the booth and steps behind two screens which ren der him invisible to both the public and the ove seers alike there he ands the voting machine facing him after carefully scanning the differ ent slots above which Is a space con kalning the names of the candidates he selects the one he wishes to vote for and drops his chip in the slot cor responding to it the fall of the chip causes an interior lever to rise this movement making the number of per sons voting appear on a little tablet on the outside which Is always ble and in the interior registering the vote for the chosen candidate when the voting is over the officer in charge lifts aside the metal covering on which is registered the number of persons voting and the number of votes obtained by each candidate la revealed by thia system 37 votes were cast in two hours at a recent election at turin |
