SECOND BALLOT TO GO.
.. «. - - ~ PREFERENTIAL VOTING
[iiy tki,i:<;kai'U. —l'Bicss association - . i f Opunake, Thursday. [ Some important remarks bearing on our voting system, and especially as it relates to the second ballot, were made by the Prime Minister in his speech to-night. "Regarding the vexed question of electoral matters," he said, "the Government has come to the determination that the Second Ballot Act shall be repealed. In order to provide a substitute therefore, it is intended to introduce into Parilament a Bill to give the right to each elector to vote on a system of electoral preferences under an adaptation of the methods that obtain in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. The elector will state the order of his preference beside the name of the candidate for election., and by a very simple process these preferences will be counted in order to ensure that no person shall be elected who has not a majority of votes recorded. The system is extremely simple, and it is expected that by this means the country will be able to secure the benefits of the second ballot without the delay, expense and inconvenience, that attend the present system.."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 470, 1 June 1912, Page 5
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193SECOND BALLOT TO GO. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 470, 1 June 1912, Page 5
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