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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 13

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M an who voted twice fOULDN’T READ AND WRITE NERVOUS WOMAN’S MISTAKE Press Association PALMEESTON X., To-day. hin g that his voto was not I? because he had spoiled his Edwin Curus voted again at booth at the general election, ul was charged with dual-voting at Palmerston Xorth I'olice Court morning ___ . - . „ Vte returning officer wid he -was •Qtied that accused liad no delib!it,.a intention of casting a double Accused had told him that he 'Aid neither read nor write. The Bench, holding that there was intention to commit an offence, c-used "as discharged. 1 a middle-aged woman who voted Ve at another booth had her name Suppressed. Her excuse was that she i,id voted and, on preparing to leave, Ats asked by another official at a , Cerent table for her name. Being Arvous, she became flurried, took another set of voting papers and ,re- . , r ,ied another rote. Accused pleaded guilty, saying she had no intention of ("asting two votes. gba was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.