POLITICAL. THE HAWKE’S BAY SEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 101, 31 December 1914, Page 3

POLITICAL.

THE HAWKE’S BAY SEAT.

DUAL VOTING. HASTINGS, Dec. 30. The result of the Magisterial recount is as telegraphed last night. In the course of his finding Mr McCarthy says: "And I hereby certify that at the scrutiny of marked rolls used by several deputy returning officers, acting at 43 booths for the said election, that in respect of 47 electoral numbers appearing on rolls there appears from comparison thereof i.nai two voting papers have been issued in respect of each of the 47 electoral numbers, and [ do further certify that at the .-..v'd election persons would seem to have voted under declarations made pursuant to Section 18 of the Amending Electoral Act of 1914, and that only blank (number will be supplied later) of such persons can be traced to have been on any roll. And whereas the result of the before-mentioned recount above recorded differs from the return of the returning- officer, which I find to be incorrect. I do, therefore, order and direct that the said returning officer make an amended return notifying the before-mentioned results of such recount." The Magisiratealso directs that Mr Campbell's £2O deposit be returned to him. It is necessary to point out that the 47 dual votes mentioned in the finding are not the 47 votes votes declared by the Magistrate to be informal, and which increase the number of informal votes declared by the returning officer in his official declaration from 53 to 100. The number is merely a coincidence. The dual voting and apparently false declaration voting are matters for the Election Court to deal wtih and not till then will it be definitely known who is the member for Hawke's Bay.