VOTING BY POST

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1928, Page 1

VOTING BY POST

TRIAL THIS ELECTION

RETURNING OFFICERS ACTIVE

The returning officers in the electorates arc now issuing vote certificates and ballot papers to those electors who am entitled to make use of the voting certificates which are he used lor the first time at the forthcoming general election.

Those entitled to vote by post are: (T) ’Any registered elector who, on account of illness or infirmity, cannot attend a polling booth, or (2) who will not Throughout the hours ol polling nil election day he within live miles by the nearest practicable route ol any booth:; or (3) who will bo travelling under'conditions wbic.li prevent bis attendance at a booth; or (I) who is a TigliTiioiisc-koeper or the wilo ol a lightlunise-kecper, or a. member of a liglitlio/usc-Keepers stall, or llie. wilo of a tight house-keeper’s stall; or (•>) who will, by approaching or recent, maternity, be precluded from attending at [any polling place to vote; or (0) who wf.ll be absent from Now Zealand on election day.

Electors as mentioned above may apply forthwith to the returning officer for thef.r electoral district lor an application form asking for the necessary papers, i They may vote by post any time fru.m now on to election dav. It is not necessary to wait until Novem|l(M. l,|. , The certificates and papers nil's! resell the otliee ol the returning otlieor for the electoral district nelore 7 p.in. on election day. ' Snch is not the case with absent voters. > A registered elector who will he absent from Ids eleetoral district (in election day, but within reach ol a polling booth may vole as an absmu ruler .hiring the hours of polling upon satisfying the deputy-ret urning utiieer that lie is unable to record bis vote lean ordinary elector in Ins own elcctmatc, and upon making a declaration o an application form provided lor the purpose- Tim correct electoral district must bo stated otherwise the vote wil he. disaflowed.