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Macdonald's votinjr „uich.ne. At first sight the average citizen .night not think there is much need of such a machine, but a little reflection will show that the present ballot system has many disadvantages. The faults of the prese.tt system are not only many, but they are important. It is not secret, as often arranged ; it is slow, mistakes are frequent, in fact constant, and it is verv expensive, in that recounts and new elections are continually aris- ing'out of difficulties in it, which a perfect voting machine would get nd of The shortcomings of the present ballot system are seen when the constant attempts at improving it are noted. At the last Dominion elec- tion an attempt was made to improve the ballot box system by a distinct failure. How easily the ballot system can be " worked " for corrupt pur- poses has heen conclusively shown not only in successful attempts to get round the Australian ballot in the U. S., but in a couple of elections near- er home, recently ventilated in the courts. Mr. Macdonald is master in equity of the Manitoba supreme court, and doubtless among other things that suggested the need of a new system was the frequency of election recounts and trials. These difficulties are not confined to Canada, for in a recent number of the Fortnightly Review an inventor describes at length a complicated and extensive apparatus, each machine of which system would probably cost more than a sufficient number of Mr. Macdonald's boxes to take the vote in a large Dominion constituency. In the United States, too, a voting machine has been in ope*- ition for two years. ir. Macdonald's machine is so simple that one minute's look at it removes a lot of objections which naturally arise. Description of even the simplest mechanical devise is not an eapy matter ; and in this case a machine to record votes at an election where there are only two candidates will be described. It may be stated, however, that by simply extending the machine, as many candidates can be accommodated as ever enter the field in Canada. This machine is outwardly about the size and shape of an ordinary ballot box. When in operation it is placed on a table, which table stands behind a screen. In front of the screen is another table. A round wooden rod about \% inches in diameter reaches horizontally from the top of the box through the screen, and its free end extends over the table in front of the screen. From the b(*ttom of the box a tin tube also extends over the table. The table slants slightly toward the table in front of the screen. The table on which the box is placed, behind the screen, is hidden from all view except that of the voter depositing his vote. The table in front, of the screen is for the deputy returning officer, poll clerks and scru- tineers. ,, , , When a voter enters the poll he gives his name to the poll clerk seat- ed at the table, who with the scrutineers checks it off. The voter is then handed a marble, and going behind the screen, finds two holes in the top of the box, one for each candidate, properly and distinctly labelled. He puts the marole into the hole opposite the name of the candidate he pre_ fers. The marble does not immediately fall into the body of the box, but Voter iivstint; his vote bchiml the siTceu. Deputy roturniti!,' oltUer n-iuly to turn ili^ rod when vot r tomes out. into a little hollow in the horizontal rod. The voter then comes out from behind the screen, and the deputy returninjf officer turns the wooden rod over as one nii^^ht turn a key in a kck. The hollow in which the marble rests is thus turned upside down ant the marble falls through a perpendic- ular tube, immediately beneath, to tlie bottom of the box. In fallinj^- down this tube it turns round the sprcket of the numbering machine one turn. The numbering machine is the best form of cyclometer used on bicycles, and it is so placed that it will turn .round once and once only every time a marble falls through the tube. Tiere is of course, a tube and a counter for each candidate. The marble on reaching the bottom of the box» which is purposely made slanting, runs to one corner and out through the long tin tube to the table, where thf deputy and scrutineers are sitting. The voter, by thus seeing the marble come back to the table, is assured that his vote has been properly recorded and makes way for the next voter. At the close of the poll the tcp of the box is taken off, when the counters are in full view, and the number of votes cast for each candi- date instantly seen. The nunibers on both the counters when added^ must equal the number of names of voters on the poll book. A simple device allows the locking up of the counters, so that they must remain in the same state as when the poll closed. In this way they can be sent in to the returning officer for his official second count, and declaration. In this there can be no marking of ballots so as to be recog- nized, no spoiling of ballots, no casting of blank ballots, no carrying ballots out of poll and no substitution by any interested party. Such a box as above described would probably not cost more than $2 all told. L