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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

P.02/05

Legbo

126

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Mr Havan M Marris

Mr President,

Nothing have Had Could

Miss Sande

I move

that

the

have given rise to the

Bise Report this morning.

BBC

Electoral

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.