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

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

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

By reason of its plural voting features the measure was not well received, even though the plural vote was not made in any way dependent upon property.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin