The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-22

thu lus roll of paper As each ballot D.
deposited tho clerk italics for each
candidate voted for through an aperture.
and as soon as this is done the tally sheet
moves along out Of sight and reach, ST.
that no tallies can be erased on additional
marks surrepttiously added.
A novel device is that patented 10y a
G.. Carey, Of Boston. The ballots are
automatically sewn together. end to end,
and rolled upon a spool from which they
are unwound to be counted. The begin.
ming of the string is an election authori'
cation document; then come the ballots,
and finally, at the closing OF the polls,
tne cci..4.a1o OF the judi 5es OF election
all sewn in one continuous strip.
q. a. Mavrhafcr, Of Vienna, Austria
patents a strange mechanism for auto
matically casting and recording ballots
actuatod by the pressure or expansion OF
auid." Probably Mr.. Mayrhafer does
not know that elections in this country
are already too much influenced by the
pressure Of certain fluids.
Among a host Of other devices, re-
scmbling threshing machines, lamps To-
comotives, sheep pens, money vaultsand
employing electricity, balls, marbles
knobs and wires, one moro attracts at
tcntion. 1t is the invention Of ii. W.
Svnatt, Blackheath, England, and prob
ably is the most comprehensive voting
machine ever invented. 1t Is warranted
TO DO everything except pay election bets
and furnish the intelligence for discrlm-
NATIVE voting "The voting place is ap-
preached 10y a turnstile.' says the inven-
tor. The voter on entering through
this stile unlocks the mechanism and
makes il possible for him To vote. There
is knob for each candidate. but the
voter can get al but one knob at "a time
Drawing of this knob locks all the
other knobs After this knob has been
pushed back in its place another knob Is
exposed To view. and SO on till all the
officers have been voted for. Pulling oi
knob registers a vote for the candidate
assigned. to il, indicates to the voter that
his vote is registered, registers the vote
on a public index. rings tell and actu.
ates the entire locking apparatus. A.
the voter makes his exit through asecond
stile the mechanism is locked till another
voter enters the first stile and thus un'
locks It.
This is all very pretty and convenient.
bat after voter had pulled knobs for
thirty-six presidential electors, a mem
bor of congress. two or three senators
and representatives in the legislature.
judicial. county. city and township
officers. perhaps 10 the number Of nifty
or sixty in all, hc would be in danger 81
becoming wear!ed, and the voters await
INC their turn at the stile would be likely
10 lose PATIENCE and commit fracture
of the peace. One wonders that the able
inventor did not add mechanism for
promptly arresiing and turning over 10
Inc police any man who might attempt
10 null moro than his lawful number OF
the knobs.
Three or four Of the patents embrace
devices for automatically displaying, III
large figures, the number Of votes cast
for each candidate. SO that at any mo-
mcnt bystander, by merely glancing at
the machine, could tell how his party or
favorito candidate was faring. This
would greatly facilitate the gathering OF
election returns for afternoon newspa-