Plural voting
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Plural voting is the practice whereby one person might be able to vote multiple times in an election, generally due to meeting property or other qualifications in two or more places.
In the United Kingdom, for example, people affiliated with a university could vote in both a university constituency and their home constituency, and property owners could vote both in the constituency where their property lay and that in which they lived, if the two were different. Some university-educated property owners could even vote in three different constituencies. These practices were abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1948.
It is not to be confused with a plurality voting system which does not necessarily involve plural voting.
Australia had Plural Voting in the 19th Century.
