plural voting

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

Example Sentences

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

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More marked this cultured mannerism when announcing immediate introduction of Bill prohibiting plural voting.

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Kautsky reminds us of the plural voting, unequal electoral districts, and absence of primary and secondary elections.

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Indeed, on the face of it, this system of plural voting seems nearly ideal.

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

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