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Election
3 Equality

(3)
1. Old Sarum. 2. Yorkshire. 3. Pocket wards in London.
(3.)

3. Equality
By equality of suffrage, is meant equality of effect as between
a suffrage given in this or that one election district, & a suffrage given
in this or that other, election district.

Understand here by equality, nothing more than the absence
of such degrees of inequality, than as would be productive of someone
or more evils of the following description, to a sensible amount.—

Evil the first. In this or that election district, the number of
electors so small that by intimidation, or corruption, freedom of
suffrage might be destroyed. By secresy of suffrage, intimidation
might be excluded. But unless by a multitude of the electors, as
compared with the value of the situation filled, & the quantity of
the means of corruption in the hands of candidates, to exclude corruption
is impossible.

Evil the second. 2 In this or that election district, the number
of the Electors so great, that in comparison of a vote in this or that
other election district, a vote is in a sensible degree inferior in value.
This being the case all voters men in such overpeopled district, feel a
sensation of injury, from the comparison of their situation with
that of the electors in an under peopled, or even in an adequately
peopled district:

3 Proportioned to the smallness thus thus produced in
the effect and [small drawing] value of a vote, will be the probability of its being
outweighed by the loss of time necessary to the delivery of it. In the
instance of all. Upon all in whose instance the advantage of
voting is thus outweighed by the inconvenience, a virtual exclusion
is thus put.

4 The greater the distance between the place spot at which
votes are delivered, and the place of an elector's abode, the greater
is the inconvenience in respect of time lost, with or without concomitant
expense. Evil 3, is common to Town and Country Districts: this evil is peculiar to Country Districts.

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Date_1	1821-05-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11275
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