THE SECOND BALLOT.
At the last elections, both political parties affirmed the desirableness of repealing the Second Ballot Act, which is admittedly a snare and a delusion. : Neither i party indicated what, if anytliiug,' X9H& institute for it. The faft is thai everybody conceded that the system of a majority Vote was superior to the Second ballot, for thel.alter did'not represent Anything like the true feeling of the constituencies. The Opposition is now assailing the Government because it does not propose substituting tlie second ballot with something in. the nature of proportional representation or preferential voting. Sir Joseph Ward and his party we're responsible for bringing down the .Second Ballot Act, which has proved an utter and costly farce. In urging the adoption of another experiment that a Legislative Council by the Liberal Government has thrown out, may they not be.landing the country in a worse electoral mess than it.is in at present? The Government is prepared to try the experiment of proportional representation with the Legislative Council. It is not prepared to adopt measures which the Opposition, may suggest, and which may wreck the prospects of the country as well as of the party of progress. The Government is doing a right and proper thing in returning to the old order of things in the meantime, for they were immeasurably superior to the present.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 4
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225THE SECOND BALLOT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 4
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