Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — VOTING MACHINE MAY BE OPENED. [ARTICLE]

VOTING MACHINE MAY BE OPENED.

Ip taking the vote from the voting machine in the Fifth precinct in the city of Columbus at the recent election, it wasdiscovered that the counter for one of th candidates had failed to register properly. P. J* Kelleher, democratic candidate for state statistician, only received 113 votes tn that precinct, as shown by the machine, while the democratic candidate immediately before him and the one immediately after him received 259 and 356 votes respectively, which made Kelleher’s loss nearly 145 in* that one precinct. The republican candidate against Kelleher did not show any Increase over’ other republican candidates near him, which is self evL dent that the machine failed to register correctly. , > Now, that the race is so close in the state and that a contest seems almost certain, it is probable that the machine here will be reopened and examined. —Columbus Democrat i