Excerpt from Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers: Number Twenty-Five, Meeting of May 3, 4, 5, 6, 1926, Washington, D. C Many new uses are being found for motion pictures. Generally these are of a utilitarian nature rather than for entertainment, but a most unique application is the use of pictures in the detection of election frauds.1 At an election recently held in France, one of the parties found that in a given district the vote had increased 20 per cent over the previous year. As only five days are allowed to claim fraud, the problem was to find some method of checking the voters' list and obtain verification of the names. The voters' lists were photographed on motion picture film and projected on to a screen which was divided off into a number of sections. 'a staff of 300 addressers copied down the names and a return postcard was sent to each voter. Two days after mailing, were returned to the senders marked by the post office dead, not known, removed, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.