PLURAL VOTING AT AUCKLAND
ELECTOR PROSECUTED. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 14.
The first prosecution against an elector for plural voting, in Auckland, at the general elections, was heard in the Magistrate's Court, when G. S. Hodgson admitted that he voted twice. After pointing out that Hodgson was liable to imprisonment up to two years for his offence, Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that defendant had some liquor on the morning of the election, and then voted. Afterwards, he went home, and had a sleep. “Late in the afternoon, when he woke up. he thought he had better do his duty, and insisted on voting again, added Sub-Inspector McCarthy. 'He went back to the same polling booth, and the same box.” „ .... , “That’s quite right, said Hodgson. “I will treat is as a drunken freak, and fine von £l. and costs ” lie was told byMr F. K. Hunt, the Magistrate.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 6
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