No Secrecy In Early Days Of Voting
In a recent broadcast talk, “Almost a century’s memories,” Mr Theodore C .Taylor, a ninety-eight-year-old woollen manufacturer and former M.P., recalled the time when “the chief qualification to vote for a member of Parliament was to own freehold property of the yearly value of at least £2, or to pay a higher rent than any working man could afford.” He himself, said Mr Taylor, bought a one-sixth share in some cottages, and this gave votes to him and to five other men.
“In 1867,” he continued, “there was no secret ballot. On the contrary, in order that everyone should know how everyone else had voted, immediately after a Parliamentary election a booklet was published with the name of every elector who had voted and for whom. I have a copy of the printed official list showing how every elector voted at the first Parliamentary election at Dewsbury in 1868.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 74, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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