The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-03-29
MACHINES FOR VOTING
Devices to Insure a Free Ballot
and Fair Count.
TAMPERING WITH RETURNS
Will BE Impossible and the Trick OF
Stuifing ballot Boxes VIII BE
Lost Art Among Unscrupu-
lous Politicians.

Hc lD6CHulty VI bi1h iuo ut iooN
solved the problem of a voting machine
which meets the needs and require
ments Of popular system of govern
ment The success of the cash regis
ter in recording and counting cash, >in-
dicated the possibilities of a piece OF
mechanism that would meet the many
difficulties, to meet and overcome in
perfecting a machine that would allow
each voter to register his Will in Sc
crecy and count every and all votes
with rapidity and absolute accuracy,
as we'll as battle all attempts to defeat
the will of the voter by fraud. Men are
only men, and as partisans are subject
to many prejudices. Passions and
temptation have. and always WILL
take every advantage to further the in
terests and success of the party TO
which they belong. But perfected
piece of machinery, created for pur-
pose to perform certain work, mas no
party affiliations or sympathy. 1t does
its work as it was designed to do
Many attempts have been made to
create a machine to perform the many
manifold duties necessary to receive
record and count the votes cast at an
election, and repeated failures have fol-
lowed each attempt until the United
States Voting Machine has been per-
fected. This and the Ross Voting Ma
chine have both been on exhibition at
Columbus this winter for the lnspec-
tion and Information of members OF the
legislature. Both are constructed on
similar principles and either, If adopt
ed in Ohio, would accomplish miracles
and save thousands of collars ana
oceans of scandal. That seem to nee
essary ends in our present system. By
this machine the returns are possible
to be had from each precinct inside OF
fiye minutes. The United States Vot-
| ing Machine ls constructed on one plan
as a harmonious whole, In which every
part Is adapted to and suitably inter-
related with every other part, so tha'
It is as certain to work accurately as
pair Of gears.
Any voting machine worthy of consid-
! Grafton must, in all respects, be me-
| chauically positive and allow every Vot'
er to vote his choice in any way-tha'
can he done with any printed pailo'
and be absolutely certain that his vote
will be registered and counted as ht
casts 1t.
Everybody knows that neithei
springs, gravity nor paper is reliable
None of them Is used by us. Spring:
break: gravity sticks; paper tears
they are only makeshifts, wholly unre
liable. unsafe, and should not be use'
in a voting machine. No voter shouI'
be dlsfranchiscd by above agencies o.
they are sure to fail sooner or later
The United States Voting Machine Il
SECRET, SAFE, STRONG and EAs
lily UNDERSTOOD. IL In general us
in the United States it would save TN
taxrayers many millions OF dollars an
nuany In election expenses; and IN
prcsidential election the result east o
the Rocky mountains would be know
before the polls cioged on the Pacii
!, slope.
In voting, the voter faces the ma
chine, which is similar in its case I
the typewriter or cash register and 1t
upon the principles of their mechanics
construction that 1t is built. 1t occu
pies about FIVE feet of space. Each par
ty's ticket is designated by color an
the party emblem, and each candidat
Is numb bered in the color that represent
his party ana ticket. The arransemen
10 SO complete IN this particular that
Is unnecessary to waste any time !
reading the names of the candidate