Naylor JonoJONO NAYLOR (National): I have to say that when I was first put on the Justice and Electoral Committee and found out that we would be doing the review of the election I never thought it could be so much fun. There are certainly a whole bunch of things that we managed to get conversations on along the way during the process of the review and of course being able to doing that review report back to the House and then see so many of the recommendations that came out of our review arrive in legislation is fairly satisfying.I think overall what we were trying to do through this process was actually make it a better more efficient service that we were providing. So as Jacinda Ardern has just said changing from having simply the 30-minute or 25-minute or 10-minute broadcast depending on what your party allocation was at a time when—certainly there are some people who want to sit down on a Saturday night at 7.30 and watch those things and I think Mr O'Rourke mentioned to us in the committee that he would be quite happy to do that. The rest of us thought that perhaps it was more appropriate in this modern age when we are trying to engage younger voters and the like to have multiple platforms on which that funding allocation could be used. So we have been wanting to modernise the system and make it more up to date and that was through the broadcasting part of these two bills.There were also some other things that we needed to address within the structure of how things take place. On voting day for example to be able to count those early votes earlier in the day so that we can have earlier results on election night obviously makes a great level of sense. Our days of being worried about results slipping out during the party voting process are I think long gone. We have got confidence that people can start counting those votes early and that is going to deliver a better result.There was as Jacinda Ardern said a significant debate about this idea of being able to enrol on election day. I can speak for myself at least in terms of my opposition to that particular point that was raised. I believe that if we actually want to encourage people to engage early within the democratic process simply allowing them to turn up on Saturday and then go Oh I didn't realise there was an election on. Oh I had better just vote." with not having taken the steps in advance to enrol to connect with the process does not make a lot of sense to me. I think actually what we need to do if we want people to enrol is we should either scrap the electoral roll and just say that anyone can turn up on the day and enrol and vote at the same time or actually have a process whereby people enrol and engage with the democratic process.Yes I guess there is time when you are looking for that to be scrutinised in the early voting process when you have those two steps to the process before you vote. I do not think it is appropriate to have just one form. What we want to do is encourage people to enrol and if we simply do away with that by saying to them "You'll never have to enrol. It doesn't matter. Just show up anytime you like and just vote based on whatever else it is that you're seeing out there." I do not think it actually encourages people into their civic responsibility of actually enrolling prior to voting. So despite the fact that there were members on the committee who wanted to see that happening we did not pass that and that is not part of this legislation.That said there are some things that needed to change. During the increased activity in the early polling situation that we find ourselves in now—and we are predicting that there may well be up to 30 percent at the next election who will vote in those prior couple of weeks before the polling day—what actually are the rules around campaigning? We had a very long discussion about what the difference is between the pre-election day voting period and election day and what should be permissible and what should not. I think arriving at the situation that we did which is that there can be no active campaigning within 10 metres of an early polling booth sends a clear signal that actually we have got to make sure that people are not being coerced to vote one way or the other on their way into the pooling booth. There is still something quite sacred about people being able to do that without being harassed or harangued on their way in. So we arrived at a sensible solution. Clearly you cannot have just too wide an area or else there probably will be no signage up around town at all.So a sensible review of the election took place. I thought it was great work by the Justice and Electoral Committee—good recommendations that have made their way into legislation by the previous Minister and now by Mark Mitchell carrying it through the last part. I think what we are going to have in 2017 is a better run election than we had in 2014 as a result of this legislation and I commend it to the House."