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
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But he brought about a constitutional organisation of the municipality, and delivered a splendid series of orations on various abuses, such as plural voting, iniquitous monopolies, etc.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
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
In England it is said to have made acute the issue of plural voting.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
The plural voting proposal contained in the Government bill of 1910 was abandoned.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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