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

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

It granted manhood suffrage, it is true, but hedged with so many qualifying conditions and complicated with so elaborate a system of plural voting as to make its effect nugatory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

It will destroy plural voting, which now allows a freeholder to vote in every district where he holds land.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.

The Reform Bill proposed in December, 1918, at an extra session, abolished plural voting, gave universal Municipal suffrage, made women eligible to County Councils and provided for the Parliamentary franchise for them.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted