Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1916 — Voting Machines Gain Much Popularity Where Used. [ARTICLE]

Voting Machines Gain Much Popularity Where Used.

Crown Point, Ind., Sept. B.—The voting machine on exhibition here in the county commissioners’ room is creating a most favorable impression among voters ,vho are dropping in to “see how the thing works” and it is understood that the county council also thinks well of the machines. Under these conditions it is believed that the first big election following the next one will find the county operating its own voting machines in the redistricted and lessened precincts of the county. What appeal particularly to the taxpayers is the fact that these machines can be purchased from the savings of the present expensive election methods, the county to use 75 per cent of these savings to make deferred payments on the fifty or sixty machines that will be necessary. Under this arrangement the county would save 25 per cent of the election cost from the time the machines are installed and subsequently when the machines are paid for, as more than 50 per cent. The machines are so accurately designed that it is impossible to make a mistake on account of the mechanism. Anybody who has enough intelligence to open an umbrella can operate a voting machine.