Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1899 — A Voting Machine Here. [ARTICLE]

A Voting Machine Here.

J. M. McGee, of Indianapolis, representing the United States Voting Machine Company, is here with a sample machine, of full size, and has mounted the same in the lower hall at the court house. He is explaining the machine to a steady procession of voters, all of whom appear to understand it very readily and to be thoroughly convinced of its great practical utility. These machines are already in use in many places in New York, and Detroit, Mieh., has adopted them. Boone county, this state, has contracted for a full supply, for the entire county. The Republican has already expressed its firm belief that voting by machinery was as great an advance over the printed Australian ballot, as the latter was over the old go-as-you please and vote-as-often as you please style which it displaced. With these voting machines frauds are impossible, miscounts and rejected ballots are impossible, contests are impossible and mistakes in voting are almost impossible. The cost is pretty high, but when once in use will save greatly in number of precincts, and in length of time election boards have to serve. The machines cost about S6OO each.