VOTING BY ANSENTEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 266, 9 November 1928, Page 12

VOTING BY ANSENTEES.

APPLICATIONS FOR PAPERS.

ONLY A SHORT TIME LEFT.

v (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Thursday.

Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the general election are simple, many inquiries are being made regarding the procedure. The position is that registered electors who will be absent from their districts on Wednesday are not required to be in possession of an absent voter's permit in order to exercise their vote. The permit system was abolished for the 1925 general election, and in its place was introduced a much simpler method. All a registered elector who is out of his own district is required to do is to apply at any polling place for voting papers for the district in which he is registered.

It will be necessary for such an applicant to satisfy the deputy returning officer of his qualifications as an elector and that it will not be possible for him to return to his electoral district before the poll doses.

Electors who have been permanently away from their districts for more than three months and have taken up permanent residence in other districts lose their qualification to vote as absentee voters.

Those entitled to vote under the postal voting system have now only a short time in which to apply for the postal vote certificates. Neither the absentee voting nor postal voting system applies to the Maori elections.

Persons who are in hospital or ill in their own homes should take immediate steps to vote by post under the new voting facilities introduced for the fir9t time at this election. By applying to the returning officer for their electoral district for an application form for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot paper they will be able to record their votes immediately and post them to the returning officers. Such votes may be recorded at any time up to the day of the election, the one condition being that certificates and papers must both oe in the hands of the returning officers before 7 p.m. on election day. All after that time will be marked of the time liuivM, and wm be classed Informal.