Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — Repeated Like Machine Gun. [ARTICLE]

Repeated Like Machine Gun.

The attention of the committee of seventy is invited to the device employed in Santo Domingo to prevent repeating; the voters’ hands are marked with indelible ink,. It is reporied that some of the voters have found it possible to erase the marks, but it is not known whether they have done this in order to repeat. At any rate,: the practice of marking a man opens up considerable possibilities, in the. way of the purification of elections. For example, in one 61 our cities recently a one-legged negro was found to have voted six times. He went to the polls once with an artificial leg, once with a “peg” leg, and once with nothing but his natural leg and a pair of crutches. By putting a bandage over one -eye and then over the other, and on one occasion sticking some whiskers on his face, he managed to repeat like a machine gun.— Philadelphia Record.