Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — Are Voting Machines Legal? [ARTICLE]

Are Voting Machines Legal?

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has recently decided that the use of voting machines is not permissible under the constitution of the commonwealth. This decision has aroused no little qp lament, and has led to the assertion that if the machines are unconstitutional in Massachusetts they mast t>e also in New York, and perhaps other States. It id pointed oat, on the other hand, however, that this does not necessarily follow, as the fundamental law of Massachusetts is peculiar in its reference to tbe method la which the votes shall be ast •