The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-06-15
HOW TAXES WILL BE BOOSTED
IF WE DO NOT PURCHASE
VOTING MACHINES AND
CHANGE PRECINCTS.
SAVE BY MACHINES
Registration Law Requires Three Ses
sions of Board of One Day Each
And There May
Be More.

And There May
Be More.
The question of voting machines
for Marshall county is arousing
considerable interest, and it. seems
that some do not understand the
import of the registration law OF
are willfully disappointing it.
That law will boost the taxes of
the county very materially if
something is not done to counterfeit
its influence.
The law says there "shall" be
three sessions of the registration
boards, and shall does not mean may
or might, as the democratic trustees
considered it did in the election of
a county superintendent Each Of
these three day sessions will cost
at the least possible calculation $15
for each precinct, or $45 for the
three days.
The following article is presented
by one of the citizens interested
in the welfare of the county and
gives these facts for the considera.
ton of the people:
Regitration of Voters and Elections
The last legislature passed an Act
entitled Registration of Voters. See,
Acts of 1911 pgaes 81 to 3S4.
Bv this Act every voter before
he is entitled to vote must Regi ter.
This registration is to be done be-
fore a Registration Board, which
shall consist of three members, who
are to- be in session at least one
day. and may be two or three
DAYS. in Nav. September and Octo
her in each year proceeding General
Election. The salary for each mem
Der shall be 81 a day. This with
the cost for room, meals, etc. will
cost approximately $50 per precinct.
Now. counting 80 precincts in Mar
shall county the cost for Registra-
ton would be 1880. The cost of
the last general election was $3.50.
Thus The cost under this new law
will be about 1870.
The cost being so much, it seems
that some means must be used to
reduce this expense and expedite the
business. To do this there seems
no way except to lesson the num-
her of voting precincts in the county
To do this we will consider the
Voting Machine proposition.
1t may be well here to give the
number of votes east at the cleo
ton in 1910: Union, 5S8: Center,
1899: Green. 234: Borrbon. 600:
$40; German GA: North
357: Polk, 400; West, 800; Walnut
551.
The machine proposition is to re-
duce the number of voting precincts
from 80 to IA, which at the same
cost of Registration, $50 each, Is
$40; and the cost for the IA Elec-
ton Boards one day. and other ex-
penses as required at the general
election would be cut from $3.50 to
$3.50. Thus costing with the use
of the machine $3.50 as against
1910 by the Australian system in
cluding registration in the 33 pre-
cincts as we now have them. This
would be saving approximately OF
$4,000 at each general election by
the use of the machine voting sys-
tenn.
The IA machines with all the ap-.
pliances it is estimated will cost
about $1,000. But the saving at
each election Of about $4,000 is
claimed would soon pay first cost OF
installing the machines. The saw
ing on z general elections would
paw the cost and the interest. The
same levy required to meet the
expenses in the 33 precincts under
the Registration Act as required by
Law would raise the amount neces
sarv to install the machine system
in 5 or 6 years.
By the use of the machine other
elections where registration is not
required, such as road, local option
and other elections that may be
held, the expenses can be greatly
lessened. In the county, we have
80 voting precincts which can be
reduced to only IA precincts, cutting
the expenses down to less than half
Some may wonder how am I to
know how to vote by the machine
method. A small duplicate ma
chine accompanies each voting ma
chine. This miniature machine Is
Ito be had in some convenient place
Tor at the headquarters Of che
parties. Thus Center township will