"TOO UNWIELDY"
FOUll' ELECTIONS IN ONE DAY. The chief returning officer of the city (Mr. .fames Ames) savs that an amendment in the Act governing municipal elections should be made before the next, set of elections, two years hence. "It is becoming too unwieldy—too much for the people lo assimilate.in one day. They cannot grasp it. We know it because of tlie number of ballot-papers which were found in boxes either not touched at all or scrawled about in a manner enlirel> incomprehensible. Is it any wonder? Here you have thousands of people, who lmve- probably never been iu a booth before, given four great ballot-papers with formidable lists of names on thorn—names many of them havo never heard of." 'Sir. Ames believes that. Ihe elections will have to be separated in .some moaner Dial: will provide for a les>: number of issues being put lo- Ihe electors on the niie dav.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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152"TOO UNWIELDY" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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