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Justice Henry Samuel Chapman, 1867

Chapman devised a secret ballot system where the government printed ballot papers with the names of all nominees and distributed them through its election officials. The voter would then delete the names of candidates he did not support. Photographed by Frederick Alexander Dunn.

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State Library of Victoria H29509

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