THE DUTY TO VOTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24606, 14 May 1941, Page 10

THE DUTY TO VOTE

TO THE EDITOB Sir. —In conversations with voters I have heard the opinion frequently expressed, " I'm not going to vote; I dont think elections should be held in wartime." I feel that such an opinion is far too widespread, and beg space in your columns to combat this apathy. Every intelligent elector regrets the elections. But they are being held. Since that is so, everyone who fails to vote automatically gives a vote to his opponents. If a large block of voters on one side fails to vote, then a quite unrepresentative council will be returned. It will then be far too late to " whip the cat." If Labour goes in through the fact that the voters who threw them out three years ago are too lazy or too disinterested to keep them out, it will not be surprising if our finances which, as Mr Allen showed at his meeting last night at Roslyn had recovered so well in the past three years, once again descend the steep and slippery hill of deficits towards the slimy pool of bankruptcy.—l am, etc., Dunedin. May 13 Plain John.