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

The plural voting proposal contained in the Government bill of 1910 was abandoned.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Under pressure of public opinion, the demand for a revision of the Constitution was at last taken into consideration in 1891, and in 1893 a new law granted universal suffrage tempered by plural voting.

From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Cammaerts, Emile

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

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