THE SECOND BALLOT.
■lt appenrs to be tolerably certain that, i-no matter what may happen in regard I <to (parties, one of ,the first acts* of the I ipresen.t Parliament will ibe to wipe off I'tfbe Statute Book the costly blunder I'Jcnbwn as ftflie .Second Ballot Act. Neither party has a good word to say for , it, and all are agreed that it is cumIhTOUB. and farcical. Whether it will ibe replaced .by a system c'f .preferenhtial voting is quite another matter. 'The opinion is gaining .ground that the 'present is not the time for (further in'novation, and that when the .period o.rIrivesfor a change in the electoral sys*fcem„ .proportional representation will |!be found more acceptable than prefcrj fcntial voting.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 4
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120THE SECOND BALLOT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 4
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