In re Gerling

The petitioner seeks in this proceeding to require the use in Monroe county of paper ballots instead of voting machines at the general election to be held in November.

* The specific grounds upon which petitioner seeks relief are that the voting machines do not afford the voter an opportunity to split his vote for presidential electors and that when a voter attempts to so split, the vote cast by him is revealed to any person subsequently entering the machine and thus secrecy is destroyed.

The Constitution of 1895, article 2, section 5, says that an election may be “ by such other method [other…