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3.
The close
attention which was directed last year to
the procedure at Sanitary Board elections revealed certain de-
fects in the existing law. This Ordinance attempts to remedy
some of these defects. Others will be dealt with in new rules
to be made under section 9 of the principal Ordinance.
4. One difficulty was that there was no register for one
part of the electorate, so that it was necessary, during the
hurry of a ballot, to investigate and decide upon various claims
to vote based on various grounds. Where there is a register
the only question is one of identity. The reason why there
was no register for part of the electorate is to be found in the
peculiar nature of the qualification. The main bases of the
qualification is liability to jury service, and the main body of
the electorate consists of persons whose names appear in the
current jurors lists. It is obvious, however, that if persons
liable to jury service have a right to vote, persons who are
specially exempted from jury service should also have a right to
vote. Accordingly the electorate included all persons who are
by section 4 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, Ordinance No.6 of 1887,
declared to be not liable to serve as jurors, subject only to
that servents of the Crown were not entitled to form part
of the electorate. The result of this was to include in the
electorate the twelve classes of persons who are under the Jury
Ordinance exempt from jury service. It is clear that much
delay could be caused by the necessity of investigating claims
to vote by persons of these twelve classes, and it is also obvicus
that questions of some difficulty might arise in connection with
such claims. The jurors lists form part of a register of the
electorate, The obvious course with regard to the remainder of
the electorate is to provide for a second part of the register
on which such persons may apply to be registered.
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