Voting machines and political machines

"The new constitution of New York, adopted last year, contains... a provision authorizing the use of a device called a voting mahine. This is not, as we understand the matter, the old contrivance long known by the familiar designation 'the political machine.' In fact the two machines re not on terms of mutual friendship, and the former will find great difficulty in getting itself into use in communities that are dominated by the latter" ("The Machine in Voting," Washington Post, May 27, 1895, p. 4).