I think its purpose (the voting machine) was speeding-up the tabulation of the congressional voting procedure (to save time). But since the traditional procedure (state by state, etc) indeed took a lot of time, which allowed for ongoing arm-twisting, and persuasion, etc., no one really wanted what Edison offered (instant) - he would have done away with that "cushion" of time... He said he learned his lesson and would not again make things that people "didn't want." Allen -------------- In a message dated 8/17/2013 2:36:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
The vote recorder was an early attempt to restrict/prevent ballot box stuffing. It is intuitively obvious that here would be loud and scurrilous resistance to such a device. _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
