A QUESTION OF VOTING.
To the Editor. Sir, —At the recent annual meeting of the Hawera Bowling Cluib a ballot was taken for the election of a committee, the president announcing that memlbera present must vote for nine (the number required) or their papers would be invalid. That is to say, members would be disfranchised unless they were prepared to vote for men in whom they had no confidence! An election held under such conditions , certainly should not be legal. The Regulation of Local Elections Act is the only guide for elections of this nature, and there it ie distinctly laid doiwn that if, say, nine candidates' are up for election and fourteen are proposed, a voter may vote for only one of the duoosea, but must not leave more tihaat nine uncancelled Trampa- on the paper;—l mm, BOTOEE. I
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1918, Page 7
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140A QUESTION OF VOTING. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1918, Page 7
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