VOTING IRREGULARITIES

Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1946, Page 5

VOTING IRREGULARITIES

Received Fridav, 7.55 p.m. CANBERRA, Nov. 8. The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifloy, said in the House of Representatives today that he would ask the Minister for In- ; terior to investigate allegatjons of seri1 jur iri'egularities in the rolls for the I Ashfield State electorate. Following ; tdberal Party charges last night that j more than 1000 people on the Ashfield I roll did not iive in ihe electorate Oiy i Were dead, a wpiha'n J'ustiee of the ! Feace revealed today that six electors (if Aubura had received twelve ballots ' papers l'oi postal votes. All the papers J were officially iuitialled but only six ; ! -ontained a f'ull address whieh meant I that the others eould have been used ! lishonestly. j When the postal votes in Ashfield, alt readv in the ballot boxes, are counted j in Monday, a police handwriting expert ' is likely to be present. I Tomorrow by-elections for the Legis- ! iative Assembly of New Soutli Wales | will be held in Auburn, Ashfield, Albury and Corowa. The Liberal Party has extended nivestigations to tlieso j-dectorates and proposes to-demand an inqTii'rv into the Federal election in Parkos where the Labour candidato, Mr. L. Haylen defeated the Liberal, Mr. A. Richardson, liv 164 votes. Ashfield is a division of the Federal electorate >f Parkes and the same rolls are used I'of both State and Federal elections. Phe Ashfield hospital. matron has reported the forgery of official initials on. ler postal voting certificate.