The Govt says there'll be voter ID here next time we vote — but I don't know if it'll last. If studies show it depresses the vote for a particular segment of the electorate it may well go — but they'd have to be disenfranchised for enough elections first. Our opposition is unelectable at the moment — I think that is more of a present danger to our democracy, we're effectively a one party state.
Churchill, whose mother was American, said words to the effect of, you can always rely on America to do the right thing, but it will try every wrong thing first.
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The Govt says there'll be voter ID here next time we vote — but I don't know if it'll last. If studies show it depresses the vote for a particular segment of the electorate it may well go — but they'd have to be disenfranchised for enough elections first. Our opposition is unelectable at the moment — I think that is more of a present danger to our democracy, we're effectively a one party state.
Churchill, whose mother was American, said words to the effect of, you can always rely on America to do the right thing, but it will try every wrong thing first.