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ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (MISCELLANEOUS RY
AMENDMENTS) (NO. 2) BILL 1993
SCA's Speech for moving the Second Reading
of the bill on 15 December 1993.
1.9. Elections
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Mr Havan M Marris
Mr President,
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Mr Garrett.
Provisions
(Miscellaneous
Amendments)
(NO. 2)
Bill 1993 be read the
second time.
2.
need to
On 2
December, the Governor explained to this
Council that time for making orderly arrangements for the
next round of elections in 1994-95 is running out. We now
initiate the legislative process to put in place
straightforward and urgent electoral arrangements
for the 3 tiers of representative bodies. The purpose of
this bill is to achieve just that.
the more
3.
First, the bill provides for the use of the
"single seat, single vote" method of voting for all
three tiers of geographical constituency elections. It is
important that any voting system applying to the entire
electorate must be fair, must have the confidence of the
community, and must be easy to operate. The "single seat,
single vote" method meets these requirements. It is
already used
over two-thirds
in all the Municipal Council and
of the District Board elections. There is
wide support, both in this Council and in the community,
to extend the use of this voting method to the remaining
Board elections in 1994, and to the
one-third Of District
geographical constituency elections for the
Legislative
Council in 1995.