GENERAL ELECTION

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 25 November 1935, Page 2

GENERAL ELECTION

POSTAL VOTING DIRECTIONS FOR ELECTORS 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 soon as possible. They are obliged to obtain from a returning officer a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot paper.

All that is required of the voter is that he should indicate the ground on which he makes the application, and when it is granted his vote may be immediately recorded and the papei- placed in the hands of the returning officer before 7 p.m. on election day. Persons who are entitled to take advantage of this provision and vote by post include those who will be absent from New Zealand on November 27, who will not be within five miles of a polling booth, or , who will be prevented by illness or infirmity from going to the poll. Under the law persons who will be absent from their electorates are not required to obtain absent voters’ permits. All they are required to do is to enter any 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.