The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

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 Hartford citizens are finding 1auIt with the voting machines. Every town which employs voting machines has some citizens who would like to go back to the ball. lot A voting machfr. is imper- sonal. The voter does not get rom 1t the same feeling of cer- tainty that his ballot has been actually received and that it will be recorded as he gets from the oId-fashioned method of voting.
 This is case where feeling leads the voter into the wrong state of mind. There is ample evidence to prove that the voting machines express the will of the voter with more certainty than the paper ballot. The old fashioned politicians did all sorts of stunts with the paper ballot, such as, marking them so that they had to be thrown out or actually throwing a roll of them away or miscounttng them. Sometimes ballots were made out and cast in large numbers by those who had no right to cast them. There is no end to the trickery that ac- companied the old Fashioned pa- per ballot.
 
 The voting machine is the same sort of an improvement in the business of counting votes that the cash register Is in the business of counting money. The voting machine records the ballot with certainty, it gives ample facilities for cutting and 1t is entirely se- cret though there are men and women who hesitate for fear the noise of cutting may attract the attention of the watcher outside and that he may suspect the bal lot is being cut. Such sensitive
 
 intelligent. The machine is come and it will stay.
 The Connecticut League of wo- men Voters is holding its annual convention in this city. The Con- necticut League Is a part of the National League of Women Voters which Is credited with being the second largest women's organi- zation in the United States. The organization Is represented in all of the 4S States of the Union; its mbership is composed of women Of all parties; its special purpose is to teach women to ex- ercise intellisently the privilege of citizenship and It's secondary purpose Is to contribute to public xneausures non-partisan, unbiased and scientific investigation and discussion.
 
 Those who will take the trouble
 
 Bridgeport convention will per ceive that these women have an intelligent and lofty concept of citizenship. They take their in- structfon from experts, they seek to understand a measure before they vote for it. Unless the men of America wish to see the actual direction of public affairs pass i'm to the hands of women they must be up and doing.
 It is a law of things that intelli- gent and skilled and scientific precision prevail over what is cas- ual, haphazard, emotionally untu- tored and incompetent. The wo- men of America intend to know the business of America. The Connecticut League of Women Voters is doing more than its share of this great work. The League is welcome to Bridge port The Times hopes it will re- turn many times in the years ahead.
 
 The Hartford Courant discussing the vaccination decision recently given by the United States Su- preme Court thinks that if the decision holds good for Texas it may be assumed that it applies to all of the United States as well. The Courant supposes that various persons in Bridgeport might wait the arrival of the full text of the decision with some impatience.
 Bridgeport is one of the number of places in the United States where this decision is understood without having to wait for it. The Courant is probably misled by the use of the word "compul- sory'' in the news. The element of compulsion is not involved. The State of Texas had a law