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
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 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.
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
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