HINTS FOR PO-LING DAY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 4 December 1914, Page 4

HINTS FOR PO-LING DAY

TREATMENT OF BALLOT PAPERS

In Voting for Candidates for PARLIAMENT—

The voter is to strike out the name of every candidate for whom he does NOT intend to vote, by drawing a line through the name with, a pen or pencil. THe voter must take care not to leave uncancelled the name of more than.one candidate, or the paper will be invalid. The ballot paper is to be folded up so that the contents cannot be seen, and ' having shown the official mark on the back to the Returning Officer, the ballot paper is to be put in the box by the voter. The ballot paper is not to be taken out of the polling booth. LICENSING. In this connection there are the issues of National Prohibition and Local Option. Under the first the voting paper reads — I vote for National Continuance. I vote for National Prohibition. The voter must strike out the proposal for which he does NOT wish to vote. ■ If the voter strikes out both, or fails to strike out one of the proposals, j the voting paper will be void, and his vote will not be recorded. . The voting paper so marked is to be dropped by the voter into the separate ballot-box prepared for it, and ?xot into the same box as that into which he drops his electoral ballot paper. The voter is not allowed to take the voting paper out of the polling booth. For Local Option, the ballot paper reads — I vote for Continuance. I vote for No-License. The voter must strike out the proposal for which he does NOT wish to ! vote. If the voter strikes out both or fails to strike out one of the proposals, the voting paper will be void, and his vote will not be recorded. The voting paper so marked is to be handed back to the Returning Officer of Deputy-Returning Officer. The voter is not allowed to take the voting paper out of the polling booth.