THE YOUNGEST VOTER
CHILD AT THE BALLOT BOX. Tho right to vole has been sought earnestly by millions for generations, and no’.v most, grown-up people can vote in elections: but &til; the right people are often left elf the list ami the wrong people are put cm It is a carelessness that ns never explained, though A constantly happens. _ The movor of a south comity town in England proposed sevc.il years ago a most laudatory vole n! ibanss to the preparer of the voting register. Then, when an tied ion eamo and lie and. his wiki went to vote, they found both had boon left clt the list! Ai a recent Ticb-b chimmi Xu.icy tl-obcids. the li\ i:-yo:i:’-0;g (!.iu,b.cr ol Professor Stanley Hobart». o; jibmvv. ■. Hi, was taken by lu.-r parents to vote bcniiou her name was mi tins voting list. j in l vcni’ before her father s name had be- 1 u 'left off, so, to (Mii attention io .ho cod way in wineb nam.-s !. :t*e|i or pot on,* ho took little Nancy w.ta him to put her vote into the ballot bo;:.
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Evening Star, Issue 17700, 29 June 1921, Page 5
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185THE YOUNGEST VOTER Evening Star, Issue 17700, 29 June 1921, Page 5
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