The evening times., 1901-06-29

levers attached to each candidates name
on that list Not desiring to vote for No.
y he raises up the small lever opposite
the number and pulls down any other
lever on the same line. If none Of the
candidates suit him, he pulls down a
lever on the blank column and discloSeS
a paper slip. on which he can write the
name of the man for whom he desires
to vote Thus. he can make up a ticket
to suit himself, but he cannot possibly
make up a ballot that is void. When he
pulls down all the levers on the Repub-
Ivan ticket and lifts up No y only the
No. levers in other columns are released
the others being locked, and when he
pulls down any other of the No. S levers
all the others on that line are locked
Thus. he cannot. if he would, vote for
two men for the sane office, unless the
law allows him to do SO He can ma
nipulate the levers as much as he chooses,
changing his ballot as often as required
for it is not actually voted until he with
draws the curtain to rEtire- For THIS
reason he cannot vote twice except oy
colIusion of the election officers and spec
tators. for il is the act Of withdTa wing
the curtain that casts the vote, and ne
would have to expose himself and again
cover himself in order TO vote twice Me
chanicaiIy the machine appears to be per-
feet II could be beaten by an election
board that would deliberately allow a
man to vote more than once. but not IN
der the supervision of a board that m
cluded one honest man. 80, also, the
recorded returns could be falsely reported
bv a dishonest election board, but the
machine itself would make an accurate
account of the votes polled-
The sole objection to it's that It makes
the voting OF straight ticket much cas-
ier than the voting of split ticket. but
that could easily be remedied by Tequlr-
ing the voter to pun down the small lev
erS for each candidate for whom he de-
sires to cast his vote The ill1teTate voter
is at no disadvantage provided he can re-
cogniZe a party emblem or can count lie
can easily be instructed what 10 do II is
to be said in favor OF the machine that
ed success in several New York cities, IN
Guiding Buffalo. and that II has met every
requirement as to simplicity of operation
speed, and accuracy
Among the Government exhibits lPatent
Office division) is a new process of trans
mitting portraits and other drawings by
electricity. In the process, as explained.
an enlarged half-tone plate is used at both
ends of the line. The intersticeS between
the dots are filed with an insulating ma
terial- The stylus, an ordinary pen, ira
verses both the sending and receiving
plate simultaneously. This is the essence
sending end is over a metal part of the
original drawing, an electrical impulse is
sent which makes a mark upon the cor
responding part OF the receiving piece OF
paper covering the receiving plate II is
only necessary that the pens at each end
shall move spontaneously TO produce the
same dGts or dashes at one end as at the
other. IN practice the sending stylus
transmits an electrical impulse with each
dot Of the sending appara ratus, and the re-
ceiving STYLUS responus with drop of
ink at the point indicated. If the plates
are traversed by the stylus at each end
the result is a transmission of the draw
ing at the sending end. whatever II may
successful. transmitting a portrait, for
example, in eight minutes