25 Jul 2025

Voting enrolment changes could lower voter participation - former electoral review panel chair

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 25 July 2025

A former lawyer who chaired the last review of electoral law says the government's move to scrap election day voting enrolments could lower voter participation. Deborah Hart was part of an independent panel set up by the previous Government in 2022 to make the electoral laws fairer and more accessible. She spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.