CHEQUE IN BALLOT-BOX
BUSINESS MAN'S MISTAKE
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. An excited voter at a city polling booth on Wednesday placed an open cheque for £1500 in'a declaration envelope, and dropped it in a ballot box. As soon as he posted the envelope the voter, who is a well-known business man, began to search his pockets. Evidently realising what ho had done he asked the deputy tb open the box. The officer, of, course, refused, and despite the voter's protests insisted that the box could not be opened till 7 o'clock, while the envelope itself could only be opened by the Returning Officor. The cheque was recovered and returned to the owner the next day. When such a mistake was made by a business man it is scarcely to be wondered at with the multiplicity of candidates and voting forms there were 2067 informal votes in a poll of 20,948 cast at the city elections.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 10
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161CHEQUE IN BALLOT-BOX Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 10
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