Postal vote rejected
The North Canterbury Hospital Board has rejected the idea of postal voting in the Christchurch City Council elections next year. By a vote of . seven to five, the board decided to advise the City Council that it thought the present system of voting should remain. The board was. told that postal voting was supposed to increase voter participation in local authority elections.
The City Council had advised that a postal voting system would not cost the board anything. The board’s chairman, Mr T. C. Grigg, said he thought the postal voting system would be more open to manipulation. Mrs J. M. Waters said she suspected that it would affect voting in those families where there was a conflict of political opinion. The City Council is to consider the idea at its next policy and finance committee meeting next month.
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Press, 25 November 1982, Page 6
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