Hipkins ChrisCHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka): I have got only two relatively brief contributions to make on the Electoral Amendment Bill and the first relates tangentially to an issue that my colleague Louisa Wall raised and that is enrolling to vote on election day. I accept that there is divided opinion in the House over whether somebody who is not on the electoral roll should be able to enrol on the day. I personally believe that people should be allowed to enrol on the day. If they are voting early they can enrol when they vote. There does not seem to me to be any logical sense now to then say: But not if you enrol on election day itself."But the question that I have got is actually around the dormant roll. Even for members who might be opposed to somebody enrolling from scratch on the day I ask whether somebody who is on the dormant roll—so they have been on the roll but for whatever reason they have fallen off the roll. So it could be that their EasyVote pack was sent out to them and then it bounced back because they have shifted address. Why could they not enrol on the day because in many cases that is simply going to be a question of updating their contact details?So it is not that they were not on the roll; it is that they were on the roll and have been taken off and they may not even be aware that they have been taken off the roll because their contact details simply were not up to date. Why could we not allow for them to update their contact details and vote on the day? These are not people who are enrolling for the first time; these are people who often inadvertently simply find themselves off the roll. I wonder whether there is some appetite to at least consider that issue if not the issue of enrolment—Hon David Parker: Three flats in 3 years.CHRIS HIPKINS: That is right. I mean people are moving around a lot at the moment particularly people in certain areas and therefore allowing them to update their details and vote on the day is not bringing somebody new on to the roll; it is simply reinstating somebody who has been taken off.The second issue that I want to query as to whether it is going to be addressed in the other amendments being considered is the issue of selfies taken in the polling booth. With the changes to early voting to create the bubble I guess around early voting it therefore brings up the issue around voters who want to take selfies. We have got a youth engagement issue when it comes to general elections: they do not show up and they do not vote. Actually I have got no problem with them taking a selfie when they are voting and thereby promoting the fact that they are voting if that therefore encourages other people to get out there and vote. It seems to me a little bit antiquated for us to say that selfies in a polling booth are not allowed. I guess there must be a safeguard that a person's selfie has to be just a selfie and it cannot be of somebody else casting their vote because that interferes with their privacy.Kris Faafoi: That's a photo.CHRIS HIPKINS: That is a photo not a selfie—yes. But if someone wants to take a selfie of themselves voting and use that to promote the fact that they have voted and thereby encourage other people to vote as well surely that is a good thing.Therefore with these new restrictions placed around early voting I hope that that will not discourage the selfie behaviour because actually those who voted early last time were able to do things—like selfies—that they could not have done if they had voted on the day because of a loophole in the law. So by creating this new bubble around the advance voting polling places I hope we are not going to inadvertently discourage a behaviour that is actually something we should be encouraging which is to encourage people to do their civic—Hon David Parker: It shouldn't say "Vote National" on their photo link.CHRIS HIPKINS: Well if they want to say whom they have voted for on the day I actually think that is OK and I know that that is going to be more contentious. But certainly at least saying that they have voted is something that we should encourage and if it is not being considered as part of this bill I know that there is another tranche of changes being considered and I wonder whether it could be considered as part of that."