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Barrie Examiner, 12 Dec 1961, p. 10

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GHANA BUILDS HIGH Ghana has embarked on $170000000 hydro project with the help at Canadian ex pert First step will be con otruction the Volta dam which will create asoo squaremile reservoir lake and tnrce relocation some 65000 natives Mop locates the dam aind reservoir area Ultimately generating sta tions will be built at Kpong and Bui WASHINGTON CP Bol loting by electronics is steadily developing into on American way at lite but controversy still swirls around use at the voting machine About 70 at the top 100 US cities employ these sixloothigh electronic contraptions their series at switches and lev ers to record the voters choice ram president to dogcatcher But Les Angelrs third largest city still holds but although its leaders were embarrassed by long delay in getting out the presidential vote count last year Now the city is paying close attention to possible use ol an electronic scanner to speed the count in the next po litical light Controversy over the ma chines usually Centres on such issues as cost and lraud One group of cities may praise the machines as last ellicient and irnudprool Others suggest they are costly and not so lraudprooi Charles Tali chairman of the we lair campaign practices committee has stated there is Australian Election Doubts Make Another One Certain CANBERRA Australia lieut erslPolitical observers today predicted another lcdernl elec tion in Australia within in months As results of Saturdays poll continue to come in in the pro portionai representation voting it appeared that the Liberal Cotntry party coalition of Prime Minister Robert Menzies had just scrambled back into oilice The government appeared to have lost control of the Senate situation which forced Men lies to seek dissolution of both houses of Parliament and new elections alter he was returned to power in 1945 The main opposition AustralA inn Labor party polled consid erably more votes than any other party Totals so far gave the Labor party 2319233 votes Liberal and Country parties coalition 1955911 and the Democratic Labor party splinter group at the Labor party 401901 Menzies following his usual practice of not issuing comment until the election result is as surednhas not spoken so tar apart from brief statement that the outcome was too un oertain to merit comment But Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen said in state meni that the government had Amanda home fiooitore ifb undoubtedly been given se vere bump by the voters Labor Leader Arthur well said It seems the late oi the gov ernment will not detinitcly be known for some days it the government is to be saved lrom humiliating dc feat it will be at the equally humiliating price of relying on the preferences of the splinter group Calwell declined to refer to the group the breakaway Dem ocratic Labor party by name Voting is compulsory in Aus tralia and some 5500000 per sons voted to elect their 24th federal Parliament Leading newspapers said the results were vote of noconti Col dcncc in ltlcnzies policies The Sydney Morning Herald normally supporter ot the gov ernment headed its election story crushing setback for Menzies In the 60 scat Senate Men zics candidates needed to win 17 seats This was seen as al most impossiblc under the com plicated system of proportional representation The governmcnt was expected to lose between eight and 15 seats in the House of Repre sentatives The likely state of parics in the house with tig uros train the previous House in brackets is Liberal Country parties on 77 Australian La bar party 56 including two non voting seats 47L Suggests Their GREEN ROOM the WEDDING RECEPTIONS BUSINESS MEETINGS THE please you Desks Coffee Tables Chairs Lamps Hassocks Mirrors Oil Pain ngsr Cushions l7 MULCASTER ST The Wellington Hotel STAG PARTIES BANQUETS UP TO 50 PEOPLE And For The Discriminotlng Customer Preterm Lounge For Further lntormatlon Dial nit sluts able chair decorative lam Record Cabinets from 4995 PLENTY OF PARKING Newly Decorated ideal Setting for OFFICE PARTIES amour PARTTES CHRISTMAS PARTIES FISHERMANS COVE l00l Gifts to Choose From Did you ever stop to think how acceptable Gifts for the Home would be to YOU The same applies to every name on your list Thats why we suggest that you use beautiful coffee table handsome desk comfort table Theyre all here at prices that will from 4995 from 995 from 1795 from 495 from 495 Balloting With Electronics Swirls In Controversy evidence at tampering with ma chines Thcre have been more and more complaints or voting ms chinesbesides high costs Louisiana engineer has re ported you can press mechani cal saw against the machines electronic voteCounters and the vibration may change the tabu lotion The Johns Hopkins University magazine suggests that ii po litical party figures it is going to lose certain precinct it could attempt to jam the ma chine to prevent vote count Jamming has shown up in some precincts it says But Richard Scammon di rector of the US Census Bur eau and an election specialist suggests the machines are lot more foolproof than ballot box Almost any tool can stutt ballot box but it is not so easy to steal the vote tram ma chine Scammon says MAY SUIT US He suggests the machine may be more suitable to the complex moltiniiice US election than the simpler Canadian election lve watched Canadian elec tions and you get out the vote cout pretty last Thats because in your ledcral election you us unlly vote or only one member at Parliament In the United States the bal lot bclme the voter may require uvote on long list ot offices lrom president to congressman Io senator sherill judges and the like machine can record these pretty last SKATES BAUER TOTS $595 BOYS $745 up GIRLS FIGURE $895 up MENS $995 up LADIES $995 up TRADEIN YOUR OLD SKATES ON NEW OR USED Skate Sharpening Specialty GOLDS SHOE SERVICE IlA CLAPPERTON Barries Original Ice Skate Exchange Up To 25 Off On CEDAR CHESTS Layaway Now While Our Selection ls Complete Thomas Edison got the tlrst US patent voting machine kct Each one usually has large panel with names of all the ct lice and local proposals requir ing vote No small switches may ap pear over each oilico or propo sal By turningone switch or the other the voter can signal yes or noto proposal or whether he wants Democrat or Republican in the otlice CAN VOTE FOR ALL Usually big lovers are on the side at the machine labelled Republican and whatever other party may be In the race By pulling one the voter may signal that he wants that partys nominees for all the atlices lever closing curtain belt hlnd the voter as he stands be lore the machine activates the electronic operation Another lever drawing the curtain back he departs clears the ma chine and records the selections in computer Scrutineers lrom each party stand nearby and take note of the vote count when the ma chine is opened alter the poll is closed Costs are reported to vary be tween $l500 and $1900 ma chipe Antlmachine lenders in Los Angeles estimate that use at them or all 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