A Voting Machine.
Some tiuie ago (writes the New V". rk corr^pondent of tiie Age) I mentionid a voting machine that had received the raiiss of all who examined it. Tho new c-.n-tilu'ion of the State of New Y- rk permits ill" use of tbis machine whe'eerer tbo local authorities any dosire, and a few days ago it was tried in an election i : a large town near tliis city, and all honest pobticans of whatever party are delighted with it. The voter outers a tooth and confr nts .a number of knobs over which the nauifs of candidates are I abted ; pulling a knob registers a vote, and the bn-b cannot be pushed back again to allow of another puli by the same voter. The illiterate man is pro Tided for by the different colours of the knobs for p-.rly distinctions, v-hilc ihe blind foter is guided by lhe shape of the Inobs. When the voter hns voted for as man? or as few candidates as he chooses, lie opens the door and comes out; opening the door and closing it resets all tlie knobs and makes everj" thing lead j for the next man. There is absolutely no chance for fraud, and the result of the election is shown by a apparatus the moment the vot ng is over. The probabilities are that the Myers ballot machine, as it Is called, will be in very general use in the course of the next few years.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 3
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247A Voting Machine. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 3
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