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Monday, July 09, 2007

DEATH OF DEMOCRACY

Missing the vote

Tightening of the electoral roll provisions may mean tens of thousands of Australian citizens will miss out on voting in the forthcoming federal elections.

Should prisoners be allowed to vote?

Today a full bench of the High Court will start considering the case of Vicki Lee Roach, an inmate of a Melbourne jail. Her lawyers will argue that the ban on prisoners voting in parliamentary elections is unconstitutional.

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