COMPULSORY VOTING
SEQUEL TO CONVICTION OF ELECTOR. TWO APPEALS FAIL MELBOURNE, Oct. 12. The High Court gave an important decision in connection with the question of compulsory voting at Parliamentary elections. J. Judd was lined 10s for failing to vote. Judd appealed to the Supreme Court on the grounds that failure to vote where only political opponents of an elector are candidates was not an ottence under the Electoral Act, and if the elector bo bound to vote for candidates who did not represent his views the Act was ultra vires. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. Judd then appealed to the High Court, which, by a majority of four to one, upheld the conviction, Judge Higgins dissenting. He held that in his opinion if an abstention from voting were part of an elector’s religious duty, as it appeared to the mind of Judd, that would establish a valid and sufficient reason for not voting. He disagreed entirely with the view that the Courts are to say what political opinion, or social views, are to he treated as reasonable.—U.P-A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10494, 13 October 1926, Page 7
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