The Electoral Bill
A .SLASHING ATTACK
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Cpsr PRKBs Aasomnoif.j (Received This Day. 11.0 <i.m.) MJSLBOUIL\E,_ This Day.
In the .Senate, ilillen made a slaslhing- attack on the new Electoral Hill. He said that by abolishing the postal vote, it would disfranchise about thirty thousand women and iniirui persons, who used the vote at the last election. Fixing polling day on Saturday would prevent Hebrews and other religious sects from voting. While it was the right of a candidate to ask for a re-count, this was now practically abolished. Jf any reliance could be placed on the justice of the community the Government hart really erected a. gallows.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 October 1911, Page 3
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110The Electoral Bill Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 October 1911, Page 3
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