ABSENTEE VOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 11

ABSENTEE VOTES

NUMEROUS INQUIRIES Fress Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the general election are simple, numerous inquiries are being made regarding the procedure. The position is that registered electors who will be absent from their districts on Wednesday are not required to be in possession of an absent voter’s permit in order to exercise their vote. 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 is to apply at any polling place for voting papers for the district in which he is registered. It will be necessary for such an applicant to satisfy the deputy-returning officer of his qualifications as an elector and that it will not be possible for him to return to his electoral district before the poll closes. 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. Neither the absentee voting nor postal voting system apply to the Maori elections.