WRONG TOTALS.
How Mistakes Occurred at Elections. SIMPLE ERRORS. The mistakes in the preliminary count in the municipal elections were not due to carelessness in totalling the votes givefl to candidates, but irt carry'ing forward totals. These facts were made known to-day by the substitute returning officer, Mr Albert Freeman, who said that soipe of the mistakes made in this manner were inexcusable. As examples of the mistakes made in transferring the figures from the counting sheets to the result sheets, Mr Freeman said that in one case 426 votes were entered up as 46, and in another case 110 and 96 were added together as 106.
“ Generally speaking, the counting of the votes was particularly good,” said Mr Freeman. “ but the mistakes in the totalling on the results sheets were inexcusable. “ All the mistakes occurred in adding together two or three small sets of figures and in transferring them from one sheet to another.
Mr Freeman also pointed to the success which the system of voting by' a cross had been. He said that in the City Council and the Hospital Board votes, less than 2 per cent of the votes cast had been informal, which was a lower percentage than ever before. That definitely established the system of voting by use of the cross as the best system.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20614, 15 May 1935, Page 7
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