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

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

But if the best hopes which can be formed on this subject were certainties, I should still contend for the principle of plural voting.

From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart

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.

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