Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1919 — LAKE COUNTY TO VOTE BY MACHINES. [ARTICLE]

LAKE COUNTY TO VOTE BY MACHINES.

Crown Point, Ind., Nov. s.—Voting at the next election in Lake county will be done entirely by machine. The county board of commissioners yesterday contracted for thirty new machines which will completely equip the entire county for the present. The machines, which represent an outlay of $29,460, were purchased of the Automatic Voting Machine Co. W. J. Lauster, president of the company, and James Davis, a field representative, were before the commissioners and submitted bids which were accepted. The county now has a total of one hundred machines, which provides one for each township and two spare machines for emergencies. . When the women of the * county are permitted to vote, and it is expected soon, it is estimated that at least thirty more machines will have to be purchased and the question has been asked why the commissioners did not prepare for this emergency, which is expected to arrive before the next presidential election.