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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 5. June 8, 1959

How Many?

How Many?

A curious and most undesirable custom seems to have established itself at Victoria in the annual student elections. I refer to the fact that although the names of the persons elected to the executive are published, the support which they, and the defeated candidates, enjoyed from the student body is not.

What is the reason for this withholding of the voting figures? In no other system of democratic elections (municipal or national) are these details not revealed.

The withholding of the voting figures may not be undemocratic, in the strictest sense, but it is certainly contrary to the best democratic traditions and it is to be hoped that this year there will be a change in this matter.