1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to get a bit angsty about 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: these voting changes, the one everyone seems to have missed 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: is the one about how it's been changed because we're 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: so hopeless. See on the disenfranchised side of the equation, 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: I've got little of any time for it. An elections held. 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but an elections 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: held every three years between the last one and the 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: next one. That's a lot of days, and at some 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: point you might want to stick your name down to 10 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: have another crack. The fact you can't rock up on 11 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: the day is only going to disenfranchise you if you're 12 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: a bit disorganized. Everyone loves a conspiracy theory, so if 13 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: you jumped on the old, oh, it's going to favor 14 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: the right. No it's not. But here's the bigger question. 15 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: Why can't you enroll on the day? You know why? 16 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: Because we can't cope? Why can't we cope because we're 17 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: a small island backwater with the technological mentality to go 18 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: with it. I asked Paul Goldsmith, the Justice Minister, on 19 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: the program last week why we aren't like the Germans. 20 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: The German elections have their results. As the polls closed, 21 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: watch the next time. It's fantastic. We don't, he said, 22 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: because they're efficient. Why aren't we efficient, I asked him. 23 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: You might have heard, he laughed, as well. He might. 24 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: Elections technologically, there are a thing time forgotten this country. 25 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: I mean, years back, we talked to phones and votes 26 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: and electronic registration. None of it's happened, none of it 27 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: ever will. We can't conduct a census properly. For God's sake, 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: we make a Mariah polling station where the CEO is 29 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: also a candidate. We still have rules being changed around 30 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: food and drink, despite the fact that got first raised 31 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: as an issue one hundred years ago when they call 32 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: it treating. We got mail votes at local body elections, 33 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: despite the fact no one uses mail, so the post 34 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: officers beside themselves our rules around political donations. They're constantly 35 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: being tinkered with elections. Just to bear a bit hard 36 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: for us. It is true there are issues elsewhere, of 37 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,639 Speaker 1: course there are. We don't seem to have waiting times 38 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: many countries do. We're corruption free, which is good. Participations high, 39 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: that's good. But the fact you can't execute a fairly 40 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: simple and logical idea like same day registration does remind 41 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: you that when it comes to modern day efficiency, it's 42 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: not a disenfranchising scandal that did us in the gliding 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: on nature of how we run things. For more from 44 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks at 45 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: B from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.