It happened, at Stratford on election day. She was good looking and young; in fact, she was voting for the first time. She walked straight into one of the little screened-off compartments familiar to all voters. She stayed there a long while, so long that one of the officials grew anxious. Had the young woman been plainer, probably she would have been there even longer. The official who got anxious had watched the girl's trim silk ankles underneath the booth screen for probably a quarter of an hour, and, as ' they remained less, he sent an assistant to see i* anything was wrong. Explanations followed, and the dear girl had taken literally the information that the voting paper would be "handed to the voter in the booth." She thought the booth was the little screened-off stall, into which she trotted straight from the door.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3389, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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