BOARD ELECTORS' RIGHT
MAY VOTE FOR AS FEW AS HE PLEASES. (By Telegraph. Press Association.). (WELLINGTON, Friday. That there is ho legal power compelling an elector at local body elections to vote for more candidates than he plegsies was an announcement made by Mr J. A. Nash M.P., at the conference of the Electric Power Boards’ Association of New Zealand yesterday. The matter cropped up through a remit being submitted from Wairere providing that, where a certain number of members are to be elected to form a power board, and any ratepayer does not vote for the'full number required, such vote will be informal. t Mr Nash said, that the law at present allowed a voter to exercise his franchise as he pleased. Many voting papers contained a proviso that if the full number of, candidates, were not voted for the vote would be invalid.' This was contrary to the law, and if any elector desired to challenge it he woujld be upheld. The remit was thrown out.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1786, 24 July 1926, Page 5
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