INTELLIGENT VOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 8

INTELLIGENT VOTING

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In reply to your interesting subleader on "Intelligence Tests" will you publish two suggestions by a. voter? (1) That the city should be divided into five wards', central, north, east, south, and west, each entitled to three representatives. Every voter would then have a fair chance of knowing who he ie voting for. At present it is almost impossible to know one-third of the thirty or forty candidates. The argument of the "parish pump" is all nonsense, as that old aquatic machine is used now, just as much as in a ward system. (2) Candidates should be grouped on the official ballotpaper according to the ticket they represent. As at least sixty to seventy per cent, of the voters vote tickets, anyhow, wo could just as well recognise a fact, and make both voting and counting far | easier than at present. It is no use ] claiming we should not have party tickets in a city like Wellington. In conclusion, can the returning officer be prevailed upon to have pencils for marking next time. One good stroke of the crayons supplied would put two or three prospective councillor^ out of action.—l am, etc., BALLOT SCRATCH^R.