ABSENTEE VOTING

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 272, 22 November 1935, Page 6

ABSENTEE VOTING

FACILITIES PROVIDED PROCEDURE OUTLINED In order to assist returning officers and to ensure their votes being recorded persons who will be unable to go to a polling booth on Election Day are asked to, (participate in the postal ballot as soonl as possible. They are obliged to obtain from th'e returning officer for their electorate a postal vote

certificate and a postal ballot .paper. All that 5s required of tho voter is that he should indicate the ground on which he makes the application,

and, when it is granted, his vote may bo immediately recorded and the paper sent to the returning officer, tto be opened ort Selection day. Persons who aro entitled to take advantage of this provision and votie by post include those who will bo absent from New Zealand on November 27, who will not bo within five miles of a polling booth, oir who will be prevented by illness or infirmity from going to poll. Under tho new law persons who will be absent from their electorates are not Required to obtain absent voters’ permitls. All they are required to do is to enter ainy polling booth in the country and give their names indicating the electorates in which they are enrolled. The returning officer will then make available to them facilities for voting by declaration as 11 absent voters.” “Person Entitled May Vote’’ Any person who is over 2.1 and is entitled to have his name on the roll but is not included may still record a vote. He may be asked to make h declaration and will then receive a voting paper. The declaration will later be examined by the registrar of electors and if the right} of the person to vote is upheld his paper will be included in the count.