Show STOPS CROOKED VOTING italian civil eng neer invents the to fo I 1 ballot box stuffers rome european ballot box fers who are as expert as any of boss tweed s henchmen ever were in the pal days 0 corruption in new york politics soon will find their oc cu pation gone an italian civil en ameer signer gogliano has invented a voting machine which it Is claimed is absolutely and ancor rup tible he calls this invention the so complete and satis new voting machine factory has this machine proved thai it had been 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 overseers alike there he finds the voting machine facing him after carefully scanning the differ ent slots above which is a space con the names of the candidates he selects the one he wishes to vote tor 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 tor the chosen candidate hen 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 is revealed by this system 37 votes were cast in two hours at a recent election at turin |