Show VOTING BY MACHINERY WHEREVER the australian ballot system has baa been adopted in elections in this country officials invariably discovered ered two grave objections to its af uke e in the first place the voter found it difficult to pick out the names of his eandi candidates dates in the official ballot where there to is no classification of parties time and labor were consumed in this effal effort rt t and then it was not always sue suc cei antil sTul because even educated persons made blunders after the the sorting and counting was wa another tedious process and like the voters the election officers made mis takes now science comes to the rescue of the australian system and both of the defects mentioned are likely to be remedied A gentleman named myers has invented a voting machine which it is claimed will prevent error aad fraud and even help the voter to be honest it was briefly alluded to tew idour columns on tuesday as tried at an election recently held in lockport now new york and where it realized all that was claimed for it the machine to is constructed upon the principle of a cash register on its face are a number of buttons the name of a candidate being marked above each the voter presses the button representing his bis candidate whose name is immediately stamped on the sheek below at the same time the buttons representing all other candidates for that office are locked by the he move movement chih the voter makes in pressing chiw hi button this prevents a voter fronk from voting for more than one person for the same office and it also pre vente tar repetition when the voter leaves the booth and closes the door the machine then automatically releases all the buttons and Is ia ready for the next I 1 the machine to is a very intricate contrivance and only a personal ln in spec ioB tion or perhaps elaborate diagram 4 could make its features understood at the lockport election twenty candidates were voted for the slowest voter took two minutes and the quickest nine seconds to record his hi vote the result of the election w was known ten minutes after the last man had cast his vote there is ii on the face of the machine an index visible to everybody which shows the total vote east but not the political character of the ballots A great deal is expected from this machine and one feat in particular is ia clai claimed ined for it that is it will absolute ly kill the old machine which counted falsified and repeated at elections |