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aggregate period of three months; (7) persons who within 
one year prior to the holding of an election have been 
convicted of bribery, intimidation, impersonation, or any 
similar offence at any election; (8) persons who, during 
one year prior to the holding of an election have been 
convicted of being habitual drunkards, idle and disorderly 
persons, or incorrigible rogues, or rogues and vagabonds ; 
(9) any person against whom there is an unsatisfied order of 
any Court for the maintenance of his wife or children 
(whether legitimate or illegitimate) ; (10) any person who has 
been convicted of having committed an aggravated assault 
upon his wife within one year; (11) persons in the naval 
or military service on full pay. 
There are now ninety electorates, each returning one 
member : the number has reached 141, was then in 1902 
reduced to 125, and further reduction is possible. The 
quorum is twenty. 
By a bill of 1910 the periods of residence were to be 
shortened,! and the poverty disqualification to be removed. 
Manhood suffrage dates from 1858, and in 1893 all plural 
voting and property qualification for non-resident electors 
disappeared. In 1903 female suffrage was introduced. 
In the case of Victoria the qualifications of electors under 
Act No. 1075 and amending Acts were as follows :— 
Every person-of the full age of twenty-one years, and not 
subject to any legal incapacity, who was a natural-born sub- 
ject of His Majesty, was qualified to vote at elections for the 
Legislative Assembly, if his name was on the roll of rate- 
paying electors, or if he was the holder of an elector’s right 
and his name was on the general or supplementary roll, or 
if he was the holder of a voter's certificate obtained under 
the provisions of s. 23 of Act No. 1601. The Act No. 1606 
‘known as the Plural Voting Abolition Act), assented to on 
August 30, 1899, provided, however, that it should not be 
lawful for any person on any one dav to vote in more than 
! The bill will presumably become law in 1911. The periods will be six 
months in the Commonwealth, three in the State, and one in the division ; 
disqualifications (3) and (11) disappear, and absentee voting is provided for; 
see Parliamentary Debates, 1910, Sess. 2, pp. 910-49, 1000-47, 1163-74. 
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