plural voting
Britishnoun
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a system that enables an elector to vote more than once in an election
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(in Britain before 1948) a system enabling certain electors to vote in more than one constituency
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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
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
The plural voting proposal contained in the Government bill of 1910 was abandoned.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
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 Simeon Strunsky
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 Ida Husted Harper
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