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Speaker 1: Some significant electoral reform to be unveiled before we vote

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Speaker 1: next time, the major one being you need to be

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Speaker 1: enrolled thirteen days before the election. Andrew get us electoral

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Speaker 1: law expert of course at a Tiger Uni is with us.

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Speaker 1: Andrew morning, Yeah, good morning, MIKEE. Is this an admission

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Speaker 1: over our lack of administrative ability or the slackness of voters?

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Speaker 2: A little bit of both. So, if someone isn't on

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Speaker 2: the printed electoral role come election time, they have to

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Speaker 2: cast what's called a special vote, and the number of

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Speaker 2: special votes have been increasing markedly over recent elections. Those

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Speaker 2: special votes take a lot longer to process, and so

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Speaker 2: that means it's taking longer to actually get a final

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Speaker 2: election result. So a combination of all of that has

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Speaker 2: led the government to say, well, we'll cut the number

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Speaker 2: of special votes by essentially stopping a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: people who aren't on the elector role from being able

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Speaker 2: to vote at all. That will reduce a number of

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Speaker 2: special votes, It'll make it quicker to get an election result. Right.

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Speaker 1: Anything else in there that's unusual, I mean this food thing.

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Speaker 1: Has that been a major Well, it's.

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Speaker 2: Really goes back to Monae and Maria at the last

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Speaker 2: election where there were concerns raised about Departu Mari's involvement,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. So again the government has said, Look, the

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Speaker 2: easiest and quicker solution for us is just to stop

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Speaker 2: people being able to give out food. I you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much it happens anyway, but it's

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Speaker 2: going to take away the ability to turn opinion polling

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Speaker 2: places of the kind of places of celebration. You just

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Speaker 2: have to go there, vote, go away. No one's allowed

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Speaker 2: to make you feel of it.

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Speaker 1: Actually, you're the man who can answer this question. If

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Speaker 1: the Serious Fraud Office found something gargantuan at that election

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Speaker 1: and there was fraud galore, do we have a mechanism

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Speaker 1: in this country to have a re election?

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Speaker 2: No? Not. Now you could only have an election petition,

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Speaker 2: which is where you challenge an election thirty days after

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Speaker 2: the election is over. So you could argue that, but

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Speaker 2: again the politicians who've made the rules have said that

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Speaker 2: they want to short window in which their elections can

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Speaker 2: be challenged. If you don't challenge within thirty days, that's it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Your line about this favoring the right as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the left is the demonstrative proof on that.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you just look at the special vote results

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Speaker 2: right after special votes are counted, they always produce more

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Speaker 2: seats for the left. I mean, that's just a fat.

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Speaker 2: This will result in fewer special votes that you know,

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Speaker 2: it's just a fat. Whether or not it's what's causing

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Speaker 2: the change that's more debatable. I really doubt it is.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's a nice change that helps the right,

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Speaker 2: so of course you know they're going to quite like it.

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Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you. Have a good weekend, Andrew,

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