ABSENTEE VOTING
THE POSITION EXPLAINED A SIMPLE SYSTEM (Per Pres 3 Association.! WELLINGTON, last, night. Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the general election are of the simplest, numerous inquiries arc being made as to what the procedure is. The position is that registered electors who will be absent from their districts on Wednesday next are not required to be in possession of an absent voter’s permit in order to exercise their votes.
The. permit system was abolished for the 1925 general election, and in its place- was introduced a much simpler method. All a registered elector who is out of his own district is required to do under the new system is to apply at any polling place and ask for voting papers for the disfrict in which he is registered. It will, be necessary for such an applicant to satisfy the deputy returning officer as to his qualifications as an elector, and that it will not be possible for him to return to his electoral district before the poll closes. For instance, electors of Ilutt who reside in Eastbourne, Pet-one and the ilutt Valley, who will be in Wellington on Wednesday, and will not be n turning to the electorate before polling terminates will be able to exercise their votes as absentee voters. The same advantage can be avail 'd of in Christchurch by the electors of Lyttelton, Kaiapoi and Riccarton, in Auckland by the electors of the suburbs of Parnell, Waitemata, Manukau and the outlying parts of Roskill; and in Dunedin by electors of Chalmers and parts of Dunedin Central. Electors who have been permanently away from their districts for more than three months, and have taken up permanent residence in other districts, lose their qualification to vote as absentee voters.
Those entitled to vote under the postal voting system have now only a short time in which to apply for the postal vote certificates. Electors affected by the postal voting provisions should attend to the matter immediately. Neither the absentee voting nor the postal voting systems apply to the Maori elections.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 9
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346ABSENTEE VOTING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 9
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