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tatives to councils and boards to demonstrate support for a cardinal principle of good government. In New Zealand, as elsewhere, the right to vote is a jealously guarded privilege. And the people who stolidly refuse to exercise it would be among the first to rlse in anger if it were taken from them. Yet they are, in effect, disfranchising themselves. The upshot, as the Local Government Commission points out, is that there can be no assurance, under the present system, that poll results are in line with what the people, or the majority of them, want. Small wonder, when everything else appears to have failed, that the commission makes out a case for compulsion. Australia introduced compulsory voting in 1925, and has never had cause to regret the step. Some day it may come to that in New Zealand, too — unless in the meantime there is a sudden awakening in the national consclence.
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Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 17 August 1965, Page 2
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154VOTING Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 17 August 1965, Page 2
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