POSTAL VOTING
PROVISION FOR ABSENTEES
The postal voting system will be available to any elector of Hutt who (a) will on polling day be absent from New Zealand; (b) will not throughout the hours of polling on polling day be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of any polling place; (c) will throughout the hours of polling on polling day be travelling under conditions which will preclude Mm from attending at any polling place to vote; (d) is ill or infirm, and by reason of such illness or infirmity will be precluded from attending at any pollingplace to vote, or, in the case of a woman, will by approaching or recent maternity, be precluded from attending at any polling place to vote. Application for postal vote-certifi-cates and postal ballot-papers can now be made to the returning officer for the by-election, Mr Jamieson, Magistrate's Court, Petone. Immediately the voting-certificato and ballot-paper are received by the elector he, or she, may mark the ballot-paper and return it immediately to the returning officer. Postal votes must be in the hands of the returning officer before the poll closes at 7 p.m. on 18th Deember. If an elector who is absent from the district has reason to believe that his application will not reach the Returning Officer so as to enable him to receive a postal vote-certificate and postal ballot-paper in time to permit of his voting before the poll closes he may make application to some other Returning Officer. An elector to whom a postal vote-certificate has been issued will not be entitled to vote rat any | polling-place unless he. first delivers to the Deputy Returning Officer for cancellation his postal vote-certificate and postal ballot-paper. Absentee electors may only vote on polling day and special provision is made by which they may exercise their vote at any post office. Ballot-papers and the necessary forms are supplied to postmasters, and it is not necessary for^ an absentee elector to be in possession of a voting permit.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 12
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334POSTAL VOTING Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 12
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