The Wairarapa Seat.
(By Telegraph.) {Per I'rtss Jx-vH-iittmit.) Wellington, This day. During the hearing of the Wairarapa petition case evidence was given that in the ease of alleged double voting the returning 'officer had examined the ballot papers at the place where the real man voted and credited the candidate accordingly. Judge Connolly said such a proceeding was an interference with the secrecy of the ballot, and the duty of the officer was to pick out the ballot papers by reference to the numbers, and place them apart as a record of fact, and to refuse to give a vote to either side.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 241, 8 February 1897, Page 3
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103The Wairarapa Seat. Hastings Standard, Issue 241, 8 February 1897, Page 3
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