CORRESPONDENCE.
OUR ELECTORAL LAWS. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It seems strange that our politicians have not seen to it that persons unable to attend polling booths because oi being inmates of hospitals or nursing homes are not provided with means of recording their votes. They are practically disfranchised through no fault of their own. Surely some reliable means of enabling disabled persons to record their votes could be initiated. Blind men can be assisted to the booth, as also the cripples, yet any persons, through illness confined to their beds, lose their privileges, and it is not fair nor just. Every infant born is claimed as an asset to the State; motherhood endowment is talked about; cradles are supposed to be kept filled; yet the mothers who are compelled to be in maternity homes at election time lose their vote, and I ask again, is it fair and just? Ought not something to be done to obviate the unfairness? I trust some of our political big guns will hear of this and do something which will provide that at future elections the class of electors quoted will have some method given them to record their votes. —I am, etc., JOE B. SIMPSON. Durham Road, Nov. 1, 1925.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1925, Page 3
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