The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-02
Standard Voting Machine Com
pany Makes a New Offer on
Voting Machines.
PAID OUT OF MONEY SAVED
Company Will Install Machines and
the City Will Pay for Them Only
as Money is Saved in the
Election Expenses.

The United States Standard Voting
Machine company of Rochester, New
York, has made a proposition to the
city council for the sale of two voting
machines for use in the Third aud
Fourth wards of the city and it is
stated that the proposition is made In
such way that the purchase of the
machines will practically demand no
outlay on the part of the council. Its
a letter to the EVENING News the
manager of the company states that
the company is willing to supply these
machines and allow the city to pay
yearly only the amount savedsby the
installation of the machines. This
proposition is made with the under
standing that if the use of the paper
i ballots were continued it would be
| necessary for the city to provide for
the division of both the Third and
Fourth ward into precincts. 1t claims
that according to law more ballots
are being cast in these wards than
are permitted in one voting place uu-
less machine is in use. The couu-
Gil has considered the matter and the
purchase of the machines is now in
the hands of committee. This com
mittee met the managers of the COM
pany recently but no definite PROPOSE
ton was made at that time. The
committee has now received the
proposition and it will be presented
Ito the city council at its next meet
ing.
/ The letter from the company manu-
featuring the machines follows:
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Feb. %, 1905.
EDITOR NEWS, KENosHA, WIS,
i Dear Sir:-This company has made
a proposal to your common council to
equip the Third and Fourth wards of
Kenosha, each with voting machine
and take in payment for them what
ever they will save in election ex-
penses, until they are paid for.
Each of the above named wards now
contains more voters than allowed by
law if paper ballots are to continue in
use, and consequently each must be
divided into two election precincts,
unless a machine be installed, In
which case it would not be necessary
to make any division. This would, of
course, save the expense of one pre-
cinct in each ward, and we suggest
that the city do install the machines
and pay on them whatever the coun-
Gil estimates they will save, until tl1eg
are paid for.
We expect to make up and send to
you in few days an estimate of what
we think this saving will amount to,
but we will say now that we are will
ing to leave the amount and time of
payment entirely to the council.
Be1oit now has one of our machines
in each of two wards that otherwise
would have two precincts each.
GAINESVILLE has one machine in each of
the five wards, four of which had two
precincts each when paper ballots
were in use; and so on in Milwaukee,
Racine, Wawatosa. Sheboygan, Osh-
kosh and Marinette; in most of these
places payment being made each
year to the saving effected.
AS other places in Wisconsin and
other states have adopted the ma
chimes, it occurs to us that you may
be interested in knowing how they
have Jared in using them; and we are
therefore sending you by same mail
printed copy of some letters and news
paper comments that we have lately
received from these places, which we
trust you may enjoy reading. We re-
main, Respectfully,
u. S. STANDARD VOTING MACHINE Co..