BALLOT SECRETS
On Saturday afternoon I my vote in the Parliamentary - election at Brown's Bay, ana i disgusted to find that voting - ballot no loiter carries with ' K . secrecy which Englishmen c&eng Every lial I<>t paper bore a sei number and on the back 01 counterfoil the clerk wrote voter's registration number. ' . , thus a possibility that an o®. might compare a ' 'filled in T ® tft : paper with the f:gu:<>-; on a coun foil and in this way discover o Mr. or Mrs. So and So voted.. practice needs tlie earnest tion of the fa:; n .nded and I 1 lovinc people 01 the country- — E. D. CARPENTER
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 6
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