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

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.

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Plural voting is legal but no plumping is allowed.

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For my own part, I attach for the present more importance to representation of minorities, and especially to Mr. Hares plan, combined with opening the suffrage to women, than to the plural voting which, in the form proposed by Mr. Buxton, of attaching the plurality of votes directly to property, I have always thoroughly repudiated.

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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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The Plural Voting Bill, passed through the Commons and rejected by the Lords, was an attempt of the same sort to give equal political rights to individuals, irrespective of the amount of their property, and the Franchise Bill of 1912 proposed to abolish the property qualification, or limitation, altogether.

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