State Ex Rel. Automatic Registering MacHine Co. v. Green

The demurrer squarely raises the question of the constitutionality of the charter provision as to voting machines. Hence the chief issue of law to be decided in this case is whether an amendment to the charter of the city of East Cleveland, providing for the casting of votes by a mechanical device, contravenes Section 2 of Article Y of the Constitution of Ohio, which requires that all elections shall be by ballot. At the outset we are confronted by the fact that this question has heretofore been decided by this court in the case of State, ex rel. Karlinger, v. Board of Deputy State…