Barrie Saunders: Voter suppression?

Some media and academics are claiming that the requirement for voters to enrol at least 13 days before the election is a form of voter suppression and will impact young people, Maori and PIs in particular.

I look at this failure to enrol in two quite different ways. The first is, if those not enrolling are too lazy or dumb then so be it, we are all better off if they don’t vote.

Bob Edlin: Kaipara champions the rights of Māori women in prison....

Kaipara champions the rights of Māori women in prison – and is given a reminder of what our voting laws demand

Māori Party MP Oriini Kaipara went out to bat for democracy – hurrah! – at Question Time in Parliament yesterday. But her mission, more pointedly, was to expose the discrimination against Māori which (she would have us believe) will result from government proposals to change electoral legislation.

In the upshot, she was reminded of what the law now requires.