As this extract from the schedules to the Electoral Act 1956 shows, voters in New Zealand’s first-past-the-post parliamentary elections used to strike out the names of every candidate other than the one for whom they wished to vote. This unusual method was replaced in 1990 by a far simpler way of voting – ever since then, in both first-past-the-post and mixed-member proportional (MMP) parliamentary elections, electors have simply had to put a tick next to the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote.
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New Zealand Statutes, 1956, pp. 1160-1261
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