THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
■ AND XHE ELECTOR'S ADDRESS.
! Some confusion has arisen in.regard '-to the interpretation of the provisions ['of last year's legislation,relating to the I addresses of electors. . Mr K. H. Crabb, !of Palmerstbh,'"Avroto ..tfi _4?L 0 Chief j Electoral Officer,': Mr J. Hislop.'on the j point and received the following rem--- / ■ ■:■:
"I. have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the -Ist hist.', regarding the. stale of the Palmerston electoral roll, and in reply have to inform you that the provisions of Section 7 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 191 S, provide as follows: That it shall be a ground for.objection to any name on a roll or a supplementary roll that the elector does not reside at the place stated on
such roll or supplementary roll as the
address of such elector. From thig .provision you will see that if an elector is moved- from the address stated, on tho roll, it sh'alMb'b a. ground for objecting to the retention, of his name on the electoral roll, but if no objection is. lodged, and the elector is not residing at the address staled 0:1 the roll'on polling day,, but is still residing within the electorate, then he is entitled to record his vote on election day.
If an elector is challenged, the deputy returning officer, if so required by a scrutineer, shall, before allowing any person to vote, put to him the following questions:— (1) Arc you the person whose name appears as A.B. on tho electoral roll now in force for the electoral dis-
trict of —— "!■ (2) Have you already voted at the' present election in this or any electoral district,' These are the only questions that the deputy returning officer can legally put to an elector. The returning officer has no authority under Section 7 of the Act to uphold the challenge and disallow (he vote. A person who is registered as an elector and is still residing in the electorate but not at tho address stated on the roll, is not disfranchised on election 'day.—"Standard."
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Otaki Mail, 7 February 1919, Page 4
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