Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): Can I just agree with my colleague David Parker—I actually think that we have a wonderful electoral system too but it can obviously be better. I would like to thank the Justice and Electoral Committee for its work within this bill. I want to make my comments in context of some things that are particular to my electorate because we had the most popular early voting booth in the country in terms of raw numbers. So more people turned up to our early voting booth in Porirua than anywhere else in the country which I think is a good thing.It speaks to a good effort to get people on the roll. Obviously people were keen to vote. My understanding was that just over 82 percent of people in the electorate voted which I think would come as a surprise to a lot of people out there given the nature of the electorate and the assumptions that may have been made. That is quite high and the enrolment too in the electorate was also quite high at 94 percent. I think there is some wiggle room in there because I think some people as Mr Parker said may be transient and may no longer be at the addresses that they were—we certainly picked that up when we were out on the hustings so we know there is work to do there.But I just wanted to echo some of the comments especially by my Wellington colleagues Grant Robertson and Chris Hipkins. The first comment is around electronic voting. I think with Porirua—the city that is encompassed completely in my electorate—being the youngest city in the country we have to make sure that we encourage as many of those young people as possible to be interested in the political process.They may not be enthused to go in and vote for their particular candidates on the particular day because they do not want to go to a polling booth as we have traditionally done. But in the future if they were enthused enough to take part in the political process and vote for whomever they like having electronic voting—being able to vote via a laptop via a device—I think in the future is something that this Parliament should seriously be looking at. Actually I think it should seriously be further down the track than it already is because I think there is an opportunity for cynicism around politics to take hold in the country especially with our younger voters.It is up to us as politicians and candidates as to how we behave and people will make judgments on that. They will make judgments not just by not voting but also by expressing their vote and also by having particular different ways of expressing their vote and a different way to going into a polling booth and voting on election day. I like having a paper ballot. That is the thing that I have grown up with. But that is not necessarily the way that it is going to be in the future. I am not young any more but I think—Peeni Henare: No.KRIS FAAFOI: —thanks Peeni—that we seriously need to have a look at electronic voting. The second issue is the one that my colleague Chris Hipkins raised around selfies. I want to use that as another way to get into what we can and cannot do on election day. I do not want it to get to the stage where—I think that we have seen in Australia—you can literally run the gauntlet at polling booths and people are waving political banners in your face but I think we have to be a little bit more open in this technological age of what we can and cannot do and what voters can and cannot do. Maybe it is fair that we restrict what political parties can do but I think that to make sure that voting is normal and a good thing to do we should be a lot more open about what people can say and do with social media around the vote.In essence I think this is an improvement but I still do not think we have quite cottoned on to where technology is and where people—and especially younger people—in New Zealand might be at in terms of participating in the democratic process. I think that once we do that—and hopefully it will not take too much longer; maybe in the 52nd Parliament we can address some of these issues—we will be able to be much closer to the voters and the voters will be much closer to us and they will be able to send us a much more precise message at the polling booths on polling day.