DIRECTIONS FOR VOTERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21086, 21 January 1932, Page 10

DIRECTIONS FOR VOTERS.

MEW SOUTH WALES SYSTEM. ' MARKED BALLOT PAPERS. The lengths to which political partisans in New South Wales may go in canvassing for support for theii; principals is indicated in a specimen ballot, paper received by Mr. T. McNab, Mayor of Mount Eden. In New Zealand the law forbids the ose on election day and the two previous days of anything approaching the semblance of a ballot paper, but in New South Wa!f>s the canvassers hand the voters marked, cards which are replicas of tlie ballot papers and which give explicit instructions as to ho v. - votes should be recorded in support of their particular candidates. The card received by Mr. McNab bears an instruction:—"Take this card into the polling booth and mark your ballot paper in exactly the same way, but do not leave the card in the booth." Another direction says: "The rames of the citizens' candidates (the sponsors of the card) are the first three names on the ballot paper." The document also shows that in New South Wales it is not the custom to place c.ll the names on the ballot papers in alphabetical order, but to group them according to their several "tickets." The correspondent who forwarded the card to Mr. McNab remarks that this is "purely a Lang idea, but it did not help him."