ABSENTEE VOTERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 November 1928, Page 6

ABSENTEE VOTERS.

PROVISIONS FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY. . .. \ (ii y Telegrapb —Press Association. ) WELLINGTON, Nqv. 8. Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the general election are of the simplest, numerous inquiries are being made as to what the procedure is. The position is that registered electors who will be absent from their districts on Wednesday next are not required to be in possession of an absent voter's permit in order to exercise thetir vote. The permit system was abolished for the 1925 general election, and in its place was introduced a much simpler method. AIL a registered elector who is out of his own district is required to do under the new system is to apply at any polling place and ask for voting papers for the districtin which he is. registered. It will be necessary for such an applicant to satisfy the deputy returning officer as to his qualifications as an elector, and that it will not be possible for him to return to- his electoral district before the poll closes. For instance, electors of Hutt who reside in Eastbourne. Ptetone and the Hutt Valley, who will be in Wellington on AVednesday and will not be returning 1q the electorate before polling terminates, will be able to exercise their votes as'absentee voters. The same advantage can be availed of in Christchurch by the electors of Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Rliccarton, in Aucldand by the electors of Pamel,. Waitemata, Alanakau and the outlying parts of Roskill, in Dunedin by the electors of Port Chalmers and part of Dunedin eOntral. Electors who hav© been permanently away from their districts for more than three months and have taken up permament residence in other districts lose their qualification to vote as absentee voters. * Tlio-s© entitled to vote under the postal voting system have now only a short, time in which to apply for the postal vote certificate. Electors affected by the postal voters’ provisions should attend to the matter immediately. Neither the absentee voting nor postal voting systems apply to” the Maori electors.