§ Par. 11. An elector may vote at a poll by the delivery of a voting paper (signed by the voter at any time subsequent to the nomination) in the form appended to this part of this Schedule or in a form to the same effect and accompanied with a like declaration, or, if the returning officer gives special directions to that effect, in person, and may so vote at any polling place if he has not been allotted to any polling place, or, if he has been so allotted, at any polling place to which he has been so allotted.
§ The returning officer may, if he thinks fit, give a special directon that voting in person is to be allowed at the election, and, if a direction is so given, may, if he thinks fit, limit the days of poll on which votes in person are to be received in pursuance of the direction.
§ Sir P. MAGNUSI beg to move, in paragraph 11, after the word "vote" ["an elector may vote at a poll"], to insert the words "personally or."
I also wish to move later the omission of the second paragraph of paragraph 11. So far as my knowledge goes, hitherto every university elector has had the opportunity of voting personally or voting by voting paper, and it has not been at the discretion of the returning officer whether he should or should not be allowed to vote personally. Therefore I would suggest the insertion of these words. I have never yet heard that it was part of the duties or privileges of a returning officer to give or to withhold permission to an elector to vote personally if he so desires. There is also the restriction on the days on which the poll might be held for electors who desire to vote personally.
§ Sir HENRY HARRISI beg to second the Amendment to the Lords Amendment.
§ Sir G. CAVEAs regards the principle of the Amendment I see no objection, but I should have thought he did not want these words "personally or," because if in the fourth line we strike out the words "if the returning officer gives special directions to that effect," that is enough.
§ Amendment to the Lords Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Amendments made to the Lords Amendment:
§ Leave out the words "if the returning officer gives special directions to that effect."
§ Leave out the words, "The returning officer may, if he thinks fit, give a special direction that voting in person is to be allowed at the election, and, if a direction is so given, may, if he thinks fit, limit the days of poll on which votes in person are to be received in pursuance of the direction."—[Sir P. Magnus.]
§ Form of Voting Paper.
§ I, A.B. (here give the electors name in full, with his university degree and college, if any), give my vote as indicated below:
| PART III.—.UNIVERSITIES. | |
| Description of University Constituency. | Number of Members. |
| England and Wales— | |
| The University of Oxford | 2 |
| The University of Cambridge | 2 |
| The University of London | 1 |
| The University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Wales, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Bristol | 2 |
| Scotland— | |
| The University of Edinburgh, the University of St. Andrews, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Aberdeen | 3 |
§ Sir ELLIS GRIFFITHI beg to move, in the Fifth Schedule, Part III., after the word "London" ["The University of London"], to insert the words "The University of Wales."
§ Amendment to Lords Amendment: made:
§ In paragraph 32, after the word "below" ["give my vote as indicated below"] insert the words "Candidates A., B., C., D. (order of preference)."