The youngest person to go to the poll in the recent General Election in Great Britain is believed to have been aged two, and as his name was on the register at Central Portsmouth he was duly allowed to exercise his strangely acquired franchise. Others aged three years, five and a half, six, 11 amd 12 years voted in other parts of the country, and apparently no exception was taken, although the father of the three-year-old had his right. to vote invalidated for some reason or another. How these things happen it is difficult to gather, but something of ithe kind is always going on. For instance during the war a man home on leave from the front was very nearly arrested for failing to report himself for the purposes of piteous Imassacre, possibly 2,000 occasion a woman received a notice being conscripted, and on another nen petins: te i4 polioa of the, calling: up for service her son who and absolutely tal been killed only a month or] murder. Not even the most fer- two previously. 'To return to the vent admirers of Gandhi oan escape subject of these juvenile from these facts, for they have been however, voters, ome out in many months' sittings know what would happen in the it would be interesting to of the court which tried the case.|case of an election where the There were over 200 accused, and of Majority happened to be a matter of two or three votes, as occurs every now and again. We might very likely find a case going through the courts until it reached the House of Lords on the question of legality. And as the matter would rest on the most extreme technical considerations we have no idea what the betting would be on the result.
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