DEFAULTERS AND ELECTION
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NOT ELrGIBLE TO VOTE
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WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. Th'ose who were committed tc iefaulters detention camps anc cave been released on parole, eithbf iy order of the revision authoritibf. >r otherwise, will not be deemed t'c e discharged until the war has ieen olficially declared to be endea nd will not be entitled to v'ote al • he general election. This wai nade clear today by an ofiicer oi he National Service Department n inquiry. The Electoral Emergency Regulaions, 1943,' barred defaulterS from egistiAatipir/-' phder theI..Elrfetpral. Act; •1927Ij.br ffoffi . exercisiiig;, aiiy. •ote 'tfndtlr ;d froim Thfe Jact that ah bnreilmdht b'drd :mighl iave been fbrwafded fo sttc'h peions did not meah they were eligible to vote. Means wfere now available to 2heck the rolls to see that defaultjrs and those who had been in defauiters' detehtion, " and were lot discharged, were not in'Cludqa n the rolls, and that had been tone recently.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1946, Page 5
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157DEFAULTERS AND ELECTION Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1946, Page 5
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