HOW ELECTIONS ARE WON.
TO Tllh EDITOR. Sir,—Saturday, May 9, is the last, day for seeing that names are on the electoral roll, and I Sud that many voters are being deprived of rights of citizenship by some insidious and designing influence. It may be of course just a mere coincidence that names who are well known to be antagonistic to the Government are struck out. I voted at the last election, and know of no reason why my name should have been struck out, except that I voted for Monk against Thompson. There are others in the same way placed, and it is to warn these against deprivation of their rights—whatever their political opinions are—that I pen these remarks. We are evidently getting rapidly Americanised into machine politics, and I should like to know who has the power to strike any name off the electoral roll without proper cause, and why there is no remedy for these scandalous proceedings. If there is one point in the charter of Liberalism that ought to be almost religious in charaeter, it is the full enjoyment of electoral liberty, but under present autocratic rule we would bf safer living in Russia.—l am, etc., H. Haktsoll.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10126, 8 May 1896, Page 3
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202HOW ELECTIONS ARE WON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10126, 8 May 1896, Page 3
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