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him to vote at any election for the district until the coming
into force of the next general or supplementary roll in which
his name could properly be included.
Persons not entitled to vote included foreigners who are
not naturalized subjects of His Majesty, and those who do
not possess the qualifications, or whose names have been
removed from the rolls under the Purification of Rolls Acts,
Nos. 1242 and 1601. Manhood suffrage has existed prac-
tically since 1858, female since 1909. and plural voting dis-
appeared in 1899.
Under an Act of 1910 the electoral franchise has been
simplified. It was proposed by the Government in the Bill
which they introduced in the Legislative Assembly to remove
altogether the possibility of one elector being registered in
more than one division, but after a conference between the
two Houses a compromise was arrived at under which, in
addition to being registered in the district in which he is
resident, an owner of property or a holder of a leasehold
created for not less than one year shall be entitled to be
registered in the division in which his property is situated.
He can, of course, only vote once at an election, but he will
be able to vote in another division at a by-election.
There are sixty-five divisions, each returning one member.
The quorum is twenty.
Under this Act of 1910, No. 2288, ss. 11-13, the franchise
is extended to every person of full age who has resided six
months in Victoria and in any district for one month pre-
ceding the date of any electoral canvass or of his claim for
enrolment. Change of residence within the same division
or to another: division of the same district does not alter
the right to vote, and a change of district leaves a voter
entitled to vote for the old district for three months after his
change of residence, until his name is transferred to the roll
of the new district. A person who is enrolled in respect of
residence as an elector for the Assembly may also be enrolled
on the general roll if he has a freehold estate and his name
appears on the citizen or burgess roll, or a separate list for
Melbourne or Geelong, or on the municipal roll, or a separate
voters’ list for any municipality, or if he is a lessee, under a
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