TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10525, 25 April 1907, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"VOT)Eiy'---<W!e are looking into- tire ■ Hwufeteir. If wJiaib you, allege did take ■ plaice, a flagrant .breajclh, of the Alot was doiuuiitted. The Local Elections •Ajct of 1904 is very plain op. the point, and if you look up socitionu ■19 1 and 20, and can) satisfy, us thiaib sutoh brewihleis did take place, we will hiaive more to say on the matter. T!he sections refeirrai to read als . under:—{l 9) Not more than "six voters Bhall be allowed in a polling (booth or more tihan one voter in aniy innier couiipai-tauenit at onte and thiet saone time, and no pei-som. shall ■- ibe allowed to ireoniain in any polling- ■ booth except thct Returning diker and bis clerks,, any df *tih,er scrutineers, and as many constables as the Rietatninig .Officer-- thinks neoessairy to keep the peace. (20) 'No sctrutrair eer or other offilcdal or lunoffidiai persgoni shiall speak t!o- ajiy voter in ■ a poUiiig-tbooth either' 'before or after sucli ;yoter ihias given' Ms vote ■except only fche Returning. Officer (with an interpreter, if necessary), who niay ask the •questions hie is autaoriised to put,' a,tud give suck general direcitionis as may aissiist any voter to give :hiiis Vote. Every peirsoin "wfoio" offend* against this section is lialble to a fine not exoeediing twenty pounds,- and 1 may ibaiat otic«i iffiimoved' fri>m the 'booth' b^ ordcu'' of ;jM& Returning; Offioey. •;-;-.• :