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Voting Rights of Permanent Residents with Professor Andrew Geddis, October 7,2020

Voting Rights of Permanent Residents with Professor Andrew Geddis, October 7,2020

Voting Rights of Permanent Residents with Professor Andrew Geddis, October 7,2020 Voting Rights of Permanent Residents with Professor Andrew Geddis, October 7,2020, 20.76 MB
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Under their immigration policy for this election, NZ First has proposed removing the right to vote from permanent residents.  Surprisingly, New Zealand is one of only four countries in the world who allow their permanent residents to vote. To hear more about why this is the case, and why it should stay that way, Bronwyn spoke to leading electoral law scholar, Professor Andrew Geddis from the University of Otago.