METHOD OF VOTING.
About 22,250 electors exercised their privi*. lege at the late poll, and a very great proportion of papers were mulled ovving principally to too many names being allowed to remain on the ballot papers. Had numerals been used, fewer informalities would have occurred, and the counting would have been made more expeditious; consequently costs would have been reduced. At a glance the numerators could see the wish of the and the papers would have remained comparatively clean. If one wished to plump for any particular candidate, all that would be needed would be to place the figure opposite h» favourite, and so on, 2, 3, 4, 5. if the wish was to vote for more than one. To have to erase forty names is a most ridiculous .method, Numeral marking is superior to either crosse 7 or striking out. J. JOLLEY THOMAS.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 6
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145METHOD OF VOTING. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 6
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