In 1899 plural voting for the assembly was abolished, and in 1900 postal voting was introduced.
Systems of plural voting were maintained in some countries, giving certain social groups an electoral advantage.
Upon their return to Brussels in November 1918, the king and his government announced the introduction of absolute universal suffrage for all men over the age of 21, implying the abandonment of plural voting.
But this does not require giving the educated elite plural votes.
To remedy this Mill proposed two solutions: limit participation and provide the competent and educated with plural votes.
Though not his view when he wrote Considerations on Representative Government, Mill wrote in his autobiography that universal education could make plural voting unnecessary (1924, pp. 153, 183 84).
In their absence, a person's years of schooling and nature of occupation would suffice to determine who would receive plural votes (1972, 308 09).
To assure that the best were elected and for the sake of rational government, Mill provided plural votes to those with college educations and to those of certain occupations and training.
There is an upper limit on the system of plural votes such that the weighted votes of the educational elite will not give them a majority coalition that could advance its class interests at the expense of the uneducated (CRG 476).
Fearing a revolution, the government adopted universal male suffrage in 1894, but only with plural voting, which allowed up to two additional votes for wealthy or educated citizens.
