I’m just talking about… I wish to ensure that it’s clear that I enjoy the principle and certainly would support the principle of franchising voting opportunities by all extents. I just wanted to be clear on that someone is not taking advantage of a situation where we have, for example, 10 beds one day and then 10 new people come in and they get to vote under that address, and then the next day 10 new people get to vote under that address and then so on and so on and so on. In theory, in a 28-day election if it was 10 beds, 10 new people every day, you could have 280 votes out of one address that really is defined by 10 beds, which… I’m just trying to get the sense of it to ensure that we franchise people properly and that the availability for people to be candidates and share their views and work with the electorate is fair, open, transparent and consistently reasonable. That’s all.
Robert Hawkins on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on June 5th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
June 4th, 2014
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