Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — Voting Machine. [ARTICLE]

Voting Machine.

The county commissioners of Boone county, after considering the advisability of purchasing a few voting machines as a test in the county, finally decided to purchase sufficient machines to conduct the entire election. Wednesday evening the board contracted with the United States Voting Machine company, of Jamestoton, N. Y., for twenty-one machines, at a total cost of $12,000. The contract calls for the delivery of the machines not later than December 30. Boone county has the distinction of being the first county in the state to adopt the new device for the entire county, although a number of precipcts have used them in Indianapolis. These machines are in general use in Buffalo and other places in New York and with the most complete success in every particular. Voting machines are nearly as much an advance over the common Australian system, as that system is over the old method which it supplanted. These machines are certain to come into universal use, in a very short time. And the shorter the better.

For the Thanksgiving holidays, the Monon Route will sell special excursion tickets to points within 150 miles, Nov. 29, 30, for a fare and a third, good to return to Deo. 1.