plural voting

British  

noun

1. a system that enables an elector to vote more than once in an election

2. (in Britain before 1948) a system enabling certain electors to vote in more than one constituency

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Example Sentences

Thus, Labor's bill to reapportion seats in Parliament called, as well, for an end to a time-honored anachronism: plural voting.

From Time Magazine Archive

In politics it would mean the establishment of a motherhood suffrage with plural voting based on the size of the family.

From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Strunsky, Simeon

But he brought about a constitutional organisation of the municipality, and delivered a splendid series of orations on various abuses, such as plural voting, iniquitous monopolies, etc.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

In England it is said to have made acute the issue of plural voting.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

For an able defense of plural voting under the system prevailing in Belgium see L. Dupriez, L'Organisation du suffrage universel en Belgique.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin