City roll
Sir, —It appears unfair that in a joint-family home only one person can have a property rate vote. Either both should have a vote or neither. It is highly questionable whether any proper-ty-based vote, either for rates or election, is democratic. But if one exists there is no justification for making a mockery of joint ownership. The changes in voting, mentioned again in today’s paper indicate that the "property” vote is now one vote per person, not, as has existed in the counties, up to three per person. This being so, the size of property is imaterial. so there is no case against owning half a property. Not only is the change continuing an undemocratic procedure, it is discriminatory, as the 19,000 now off the roll, unless they apply, are mostly women. Even a woman whost initials precede her husband’s is put second.—Yours etc., B.K.R. May 10, 1974.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33532, 13 May 1974, Page 12
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