POLITICAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3869, 10 November 1928, Page 3

POLITICAL

ABSENTEE VOTING. PROCEDURE EXPLAINED. Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the general .election are of the simplest, numerous inquiries are being made as to what the procedure is. The position is that registered electors who will be absent from their disti’icts on Wednesday next are not required to be in possession of an absent voter’s permit in order to exercise their vote. The permits system was abolished for the 1925 general election and in its jxlaee was introduced a much simpler method. All a registered elector who is out of his own disti’ict is required to do under the new system is to apply at any polling place and ask for voting papers for the district in which he is registered. It will be necessary for such an application to satisfy the deputy returning officer as to his qualifications as an elector, and that it will not be possible for him to return to his electoral district before the poll closes. Electors who have been permanently away from their districts for more than three months and have taken up their permanent residence in other districts lose their qualification to vote as absentee voters. Neither the absentee voting nor the postal voting system applies to the Maori elections.