3 MARCH 1950, Page 4

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not the only person who felt considerably shocked by the sentence passed last week on a Hull fisheanan for the offence of voting twice, once for himself and once for his son, who was at sea. The man said he had been going to sea for thirty years and had never voted at a General Election before. If his son had given him a proxy, as he might have done, the second vote (the man had already voted in his own name) would have been in order. As that formality had been omitted, the man was sent to prison for three months. This is essentially a case for the Home Secretary's immediate attention. Some penalty—yes. But three months' imprisonment—?

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