VOTING BY POST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20087, 26 October 1928, Page 14

VOTING BY POST.

THE NEW FACILITIES. VOTES MAY BE RECORDED NOW. The oflico of the Auckland registrar of electors is issuing vote-certificates and ballot-papers to electors who are entitled to take advantage of tho postal voting facilities to bo introduced for the first time at tih* coming general election. Persons thus entitled to vote by post comprise (1) any registered elector who, 011 account of illness or infirmity, cannot attend a poll-ing-booth, or (2) who will not throughout the hours of polling on election day be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of any booth; or (3) who will bo travelling under conditions which prevent his attendance at a booth; or (4) who is a lighthouse-keeper or a. member of his family or staff and cannot attend a booth to vote; or (5) who will bo absent from New Zealand on election day, Theso persons may apply at onco to tho returning officer for their electoral distriot for an application form for a postal vote-certificate and postal ballotpaper to cnnblo them to vote elsewhere (ban at a duly appointed polling-booth. Electors who have been issued postal votecertificates and postal ballot-papers may vote, at any time between the date of tho issue of the writs, last Friday, and election day. Some of them may be waiting until November 14 to record their votes, but thev raw vote at once if they wish to. The certificates and papers must reach the ollico of tho returning officer for the electoral district before 7 p.m. on election day. Any envelopes containing postal ballot-papers received after that hour will bo on faced with particulars of tho time and date of receipt and will bo marked "informal." . Tho position of absent voters is different. A registered elector who will be absent from his electoral district on election day. but within reach of a pooling-booth may vote as an absent voter during tho hours of polling upon satisfying the de-puty-returning officer that 110 is unable to record his vote as an ordinary elector in bis own electorate, and upon making a declaration on an application form provided for tho purpose. Tho correct electoral district must bo stated, otherwise the vole will bo disallowed.