Politics and "effective Voting"
She was an advocate of Thomas Hare's scheme for proportional representation, at one stage considering this issue more pressing than that of woman suffrage.
Read more about this topic: Catherine Helen Spence
Famous quotes containing the words politics, effective and/or voting:
“I believe you to be a brave and a skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
—Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)