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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

[introduction]

On General Election Day, when the members of the now Parliament will be elected, the Electors will vote also about the granting of licenses to sell intoxicating liquor. But Licensing Committees will not be elected on that day.

When you are in the polling booth, two papers will he given to you. One of them, called the "Ballot Paper," will contain the names of the candidate for Parliament. The other, called the "Voting Paper," will be about the granting of licenses. The two papers will be of different colours, and there will be different boxes to put them into when you have used them.

From the ballot paper you will strike out the name of any candidate or candidates you wish not to be elected to Parliament; and from the voting paper you will strike out anything about licenses which you wish not to be carried.

No one can tell after wards how you have voted, whatever any may pretend; so you need not be at all afraid to vote just as your own good sense tells you to. If anyone tells you after wards that he has found out, it will be only a guess to try to make you tell Neither Prince, Priest, nor Peasant Returning Officer, Poll Clerk, nor Scrutineer can find out so you need not fear anyone. (See the explanation of this in the article on the Secrecy of the Ballot, page 27.)

If the responsible person inside the polling booth fails to give you both papers, or misleads you in any way, he will be liable to a penalty of £20.

The day will be a Public Half-Holiday, from noon, and no liquor may be sold from noon to seven o'clock.

The voting paper about licenses will be much simpler than last time. The voter may strike out any one or two of the three lines upon it; but our advice is to Strike out only the Top Line. You will find good reason for this advice in the following articles.

Take no notice of the papers which people will give you outside the polling booth. The right papers will be given to you by the proper officers inside the polling booth.

This is what the "Voting Paper" will be like:—