Names (Duplication)

Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Register – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge , Bedford 12:00, 8 December 1949

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the considerable number of people whose names appear on voting registers in two or more constituencies, and in the interest of maintaining the principle of one man one vote, he will arrange for all reprints of Electoral Registration forms to carry the warning that it is an offence to vote more than once at the same Parliamentary Election.

Photo of Mr James Ede Mr James Ede , South Shields

I had already decided to arrange for a note on this subject to be printed in future on Form A.

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