LECTORAL LAW.
SECOND BALLOT ACT TO BE■ REFEALED. PREFERENTIAL VOTING. Regarding the vexed question of electoral matters: The Government has come to tho determination that the Second Ballot. Act shall be repealed. In order to provido a substitute therefor, it is intended .to introduce into Parliament a Bill to give ilia right to each elector to vote on a system of electoral preferences under an adaptation of the methods that obtain in Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. The elector will state the order of his preferences beside I lie name of the for election, and by a very simple process these preleienses will be counted in order lo ensure I hat no person -li:>ll be clecled who has nol a majority of the voles riconled. TIIO sy-lem i> t":lrci»e!v simple, and il is exporter] llnl by this moans the conn'try will be ablo to secure the bmeiits of
the second ballot, without tho delay, expense, and inconvenience that attend tho present system.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1454, 31 May 1912, Page 6
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162LECTORAL LAW. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1454, 31 May 1912, Page 6
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