ABSENT VOTERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1925, Page 4

ABSENT VOTERS.

THE NEW SYSTEM. WELLINGTON'. Sept. :iO. In movin'' thi“ second reading of tho Legislature Art Amendment Hill, the l’ritne .'Minister gave the following resume ol the provisions ter ahsent voting:— Any registered elector who retains Ids qualifu-at is >ll lor registr.il ion as an elector of the district for which lie is registered is entitled to vote at any polling-place outside the district for which lie is registered. He must go to r. polling-place. Tile right to vote at a post office only applies in the case of it Kye-election. The elector applies in person to the deputy-returning officer, and. alter giving him full particulars as to his full name and address, the deputy requires the elector to make application for a voting paper. In this application the elector is required to declare that (a) lie is entitled to vote for the electoral district for which he is registered, (hi inis net. qualified to lie enrolled a . an elector of any other electoral district. On the application being signed and witnessed, the deptily-rflliming . fib er gives to the elector a voting paper with llit' names of the candidates written I hereon. The elector marks the voting paper in the proscribed manner, and returns it to the deputy, who encloses it in an envelope. Licensing voting papers, which are handed at the same time to the elector, are placed in another envelope.' The two -envelopes are then enclosed in a third oilier of the district for which the vote is recorded. After seeing the envelope. the deputy post- it. and at tho same time sends a telegram to (ho returning oflieer that the elect"-!- has

exercised his vote as all id.-elil voter. On receipt of the application by the returning oliicer oi the distiiet fui signature I'll ill" nppl'enl i"ll is e-iic.-pareil with the signature on the application for l egist rat ion as an e color. If tl'e two signatures a e alike, and the registrar is salislied. 1-e initial.it as being in order, and on this evidence the reluming oflieer ac-epis flu

Every post imisier liir-.tighoiu i'-c Dominion li.-s b.-n i nsi riiet--d is to Dial any pers» ■: who applies to a pest oilier- will I:■ able 1.; get information on tl-.e new system, and he informed at the same tine- that absent voter:' j i-r----mils are not: now required. Ihe new svsiem is mo h srnpler than line el-i one. and it i. net anticipated that there will h" any misunderstanding or confusion on elec-: i m day. The I’l'inie Minister said that for the recent live ele -i I :ii in (•"i':i ll l.iin ii w< rheas... of course, absentee electors had l-.. e !ieL re a p.: -I master. K,* 'jr» J ssuerwa*' , /« jvt.'cssno natafrart*