§ MR. DIXONasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether the words "otherwise incapacitated," in the eighth sub-section of the ninth Clause of the Elections (Parliamentary and Municipal) (re-committed) Bill, are intended to include Electors who are unable to read and write; and, if not, whether he will introduce words providing that such Voters may not be excluded from exercising their franchise?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, in reply, that he did not understand the words referred to to include persons who were unable to read or write. Such voters were not excluded from the franchise at present, and by an alphabetical arrangement of the names of the candidates, and an arrangement for marking a cross within a square, he did not think that any person of average intelligence unable to read or write would be prevented from being able to record his vote. The question was, however, one to be dealt with in Committee.