Whaitiri MekaMEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): Just in response to that last speaker Mr Scott 27000 people voted—27000 people on election day in 2014 went to vote and to do what every other New Zealander did throughout the election period last election. There were 27000 people who cast a special vote on the understanding that their vote would count and of course it did not. It did not.This bill despite what the members on the Government benches are saying is not going to create anarchy. People are not going to jump off the electoral roll and leave it until the last day to rock on up as many of those members have said on election day to cast their vote. We are talking about 27000 people who did that for the last election.Can I remind the House of the reasons why I gave those 27000—and there are multiple reasons why 27000 people in the last election cast a special vote on the understanding that it would be counted. I gave a couple of reasons. One is that they may have been enrolled in the wrong electorate. They may have voted in the wrong electorate because they failed to understand which electorate they were enrolled in. There could have been some reason that I do not know—maybe they had no fixed abode; maybe they were homeless. Maybe they were part of the 40000 people in this country who have no fixed abode which is an issue when you go and register. What's your address?". "Well I'm actually sleeping in the car—oh no no hold on I'm sleeping in a garage. Oh no I'm in a crowded place."Let us bring up the whole core problem with this bill that the Government is creating. There were 27000 people who went to the polling booths in 2014 to exercise their right to vote by casting a special vote and there are multiple reasons why people found themselves there. This is not an open slather for every man and their dog to give up enrolling through the normal process and leave it for the last day.I want to just go through some of the comments that the National members contributed in this debate. Jono Naylor talked about how this bill undermines the electoral process—that all of a sudden people will disregard the electoral enrolling process and just turn up on the day. Well I was waiting for his evidence to show that that would happen. No I did not hear it.Then we went to Paul Foster-Bell who talked about the "perverse incentive". He talked about online voting and all these moral hazards the practicality and the signal it will send and the administrative burden. Again he is creating a mountain out of a molehill—we are talking about 27000 people. As the Electoral Commission said the number could rise to 35000 people. This bill would address the multiple reasons of New Zealanders all around this country who find themselves on election day unable to go through the proper process. This bill was to address that need.Then we go to Mr Bishop who talked about the importance of the roll the information of parties the Electoral Commission sending out stuff and who can and cannot vote. If people can register and vote through early voting then what I cannot understand is why this Government is so opposed to extending that to election day. I did not hear any justification or rationale as to why it thinks that this bill would not address the very issue that I have raised in my contribution.There are 27000 people in a country that purports to support democracy—the very country that first gave women the vote. And when we are looking at those who for whatever reason cannot register in due course and want to vote on election day—this bill would enable them to practise their democratic right to vote. I am disappointed that the National Government has come up with very lame reasons as to why it is voting against it.In the half a minute that I have got can I please thank the parties whose members got up and spoke in support: the Greens and New Zealand First. I was hoping that the Māori Party members would come down and take a call because as I said in my opening speech 8600 Māori voters in 2014 were disallowed and this bill was going to address that. I was hoping that they would take a call. I want to thank all the parties that supported it. I was hoping to hear from the others. It is still a good bill. I present it and support it in this stage. Kia ora tātou."