AYe are being repeatedly told by advocates of proportional representation and of preferential voting and of other electoral methods, that the system under which the election of Parliament is conducted is not a democratic system. It is at least, however, a system which does not so restrict the issues as to prevent minority schools of political thought from pitting forward their candidates and supporting their candidates at the polls. In this particular ( it is distinctly democratic in a sense in which the “demand” of the prohibitionists for a two-issue ballot paper is anti-democratic. It is a system which does not, as the ballot paper that is desired by the prohibitionists would do, either disfranchise a large number of electors or else compel them to do violence to their convictions. —“Otago Daily Times.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1928, Page 4
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