PREFERENTIAL VOTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 4

PREFERENTIAL VOTING.

To the Editor.

Sir, —At Hawera Mr Corrigan declared himself in favour of preferential voting and not of proportional representation, though the Liberal party stands for the latter (or lately did stand, for no one knows where they are from day to day). Mr Gawith askeft . him what was preferential voting, and Ttl , Corrigan answered as follows: "It's like this. If there are twenty candidates you mark the one you like best 1, the next one 2, and so on down to 20, and then when the xeturning- „ officer counts them he gives the first candidate 20 votes, the next one ly, and so' on. It's just like judging cattle, Mr Gawith, at the shows, when, you are deciding on the points prize." This explanation seems to me as lucid as the One Big Union idea of Mr Corrigan's, and I should like to know, MrEditor, whether Mr Corrigan. understands the principle of preferential, voting. Are not the votes transferred. from one candidate to another?—l am, etc., MYSTIFIED.