YOUTHFUL VOTERS.
BRITISH ELECTION CASES. A number of juveniles voted at the recent general election in Britain. Hull's youngest voter was Andrew Ford, the three-year-old son of a trans-port-worker, who voted for Commander Kenworthy, in Central Hull. Dressed in a sailor suit, he wore an orange rosette. The child's name by some mischance had got on to the Parliamentary register as a lodger, and his claim to vote could not hechallenged. The presiding officer, however/ refused to allow the father to vote. The father is an ex-service man, and some technical difficulty cropped up. The point was referred for settlement to the Town Clerk.
A six-year-old boy whose name appeared on the register recorded his vote at Grimsby. The vote of a two-year-old boy was allowed to be recorded at Portsmouth. ' At Canterbury Constable Webb took his four-year-old-son with him to- the polling booth, but although the infant's name was duly on the register his vote was disallowed.
At Newcastle a six-year-old boy, whose name was on the register, was not allowed to vote. The presiding agent demanded an identity affidavit, and it was decided that the boy was too young to be sworn. **
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18296, 12 January 1923, Page 9
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