Voters’ Rights Rightly Curtailed ?
The National-led government has just announced a full ban on prisoners voting: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/559446/prisoner-voting-ban-to-be-brought-back-paul-goldsmith This is a reversal from a change allowing prisoners imprisoned for a term shorter than three years (the length of New Zealand’s election cycle) to vote. This reversal would mean that, purely depending on when in the election cycle one is sentenced, […]
