Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — INCREASE VOTING PRECINCTS [ARTICLE]

INCREASE VOTING PRECINCTS

Tippecanoe County Women Cause Purchase of More Machines. Lafayette, April 2. —At a special meeting of the board of county commissioners, held Saturday, an order was given for sixteen additional voting machines. The county already owns thirty machines, but the law recently passed giving the women the right to vote has so increased the number of voters in the county that the commissioners at a recent meeting redistricted the county, making forty-six voting places. The new machines are to cost SBOO each, SSO more than the other thirty cost. It is understood the machines will be delivered for the election of constitutional delegates to be held in September. It is quit probable that similar action will be necessary in Newton county, where the county commissioners recently purchased ten new machines.