History Of Voting In New Zealand
Voting in New Zealand was introduced after colonisation by British settlers.
Read more about History Of Voting In New Zealand: Early Local Body Elections, New Zealand Constitution Act, Supplementary Elections, Gold-miners and The Vote, Māori Seats, The Secret Ballot, Abolition of The Property Requirement, Country Quota, Women's Suffrage, Lowering The Voting Age, Overseas Voting, Abolition of The Citizenship Requirement, Switch To MMP
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“I feel as tall as you.”
—Ellis Meredith, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 14, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)