THE LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION.
[to the editor.] Sir—lst, Is it usual for candidates at elections to act an returning officers and scrutineers ? Being interested par* ties, any voting papers not suiting them may be put aside as informal. This, to my knowledge, has been done at the election of the State School Committee last night. Had disinter* ested parties had the conducting of the affair, I feel assured that one balloting paper (which I believe was mine) would not have been put on one side, presumably as informal. 2nd. Dont you think it a farce when one person can give seven votes to any oue he likes, instead of only one vote to any candidate or number of candidates seeking election! This, in an important case like the present, would be a; better way of getting public opinion represented.—l am, <fec., Fair Play. Kumara, Jan. 27th, 1880. ' [The; informal ballot-paper referred to by our correspondent as' his own qon* tained 'seven votes for one candidate, and was rendered informal through the same person's name appearing twice on the ballot-paper. On these grounds the second question of our correspondent appears very incompatible with his action on the occasiou in question.—■ Ed. K. T.]
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Kumara Times, Issue 1037, 27 January 1880, Page 2
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203THE LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION. Kumara Times, Issue 1037, 27 January 1880, Page 2
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