A Remarkable Voting Machine.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 3, 2 January 1906, Page 63

A Remarkable Voting Machine.

An automatic voting-machine, invented by Mr. Horace Harding, of Grafton, New South Wales, has lately been exhibited to the Parliament of New South Wales, and has attracted much interest. It is one of the most complete machines of the kind ever devised, and can be produced, it is said, at a cost of about The inventor is a New Zealander, born and educated in Wanganui. The machine being of the " sectional " type is capable of being extended as required to suit any number of candidates, and where there are only two or three, the unnecessary sections are detached. It exhibits to each voter a figure indicating the total number of votes he is permitted to cast ; automatically rings a bell as soon as the voter has recorded his full number of votes ; automatically rejects all informal votes ; records and adds all legal votes, totals being revealed immediately after the election closes ; can automatically limit the number of votes any voter can cast, or can be quickly and simply adjusted.