ELECTORAL REFORM
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whenever a General Election takes place there are thousands who are legally entitled to record their vote but, owing to serious illness, lie in our hospitals or their own homes, and are incapacited from visiting the polling booth. As a Lancastrian my suggestion is that an Act of Parliament should be passed giving magistrates, or other authorised persons, power to visit our hospitals or homes, and there receive sealed envelopes containing the ballot papers, these afterwards to be handed to the polling clerk.
My name is on the roll of voters in the Newton Division (Lancashire), but I am utterly incapacited from recording my vote, and I appeal strongly to our Member, Sir Robert Young, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, to bring in a Bill before the General Election, and earn the gratitude of tens of thousands of voters throughout the country.—I am,
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