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- — ■ .Sp.n.8,! ,'l ,Ul (From Our Own Correspondents.) InteUigent Voting. In l>i@ leoture at Wainukurau, Mr P. M^rtin-Smith, xM.A., Lg.B., l)ip. Eu. gakl tljere wns a growing dissntisfan tion with the inaehmery of deniocracy. ''We migbt ask •ourselyes whether it ig possible to expect the ordinary .citizen to really take an interest and make hims^f fajnili&r with all the issues that are put before hiin at the •time of an eleetion. Instead of complainihg ubout the number of people who do not vote, we miglit well ask Qurselves what percentage of tliose who do vote really vote intelligently and with a knowledge of the isspes on which they arg voting. Many people tend to vote on all sorts of irrelevant issues and not the main ones."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 12
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