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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1925, Page 4

H is not generally known Hint the procedure under wliidi absent voters I may take part in a Parliamentary cdeeI turn inis been greatly simplified by the regulations issued since Hie pass. ! ‘eg oi the Legislature Amendment Act lot lasi session. Fnrmerly it was necessary for a voter, temporarily absent from the electorate in which he was enrolled, to obtain a special permit I ■ , fore the election day. This is not now required. The absent voter has only to I go into any Post Office in the Dominion and apply for a special electoral declaration form. A\ hen he has filled in and I signed the form lie is handed a votingpaper on which the names of the candidates have been written, lie marks this in the ordinary way, and the Postal officer, acting as a deputy returning ofheor. then seals up the l declaration and voting-paper in an envelope and addresses it io the returning officer in the electoral district concerned. The returning officer is required to compare the signature on the declaration with that upon the card idled in In- the elector alien applying for registration, ft they are similar the vote is recorded. If not it is rejeetetl. The procedure could hardly be simpler, ambit lias the advantage that it provides for all cases of sudden absence from an electorate.

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