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

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 Strunsky, Simeon

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

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