{"id":13630,"date":"2021-10-29T01:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13630"},"modified":"2021-10-29T01:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:36:02","slug":"voter-id-laws-a-trumpian-culture-war-tactic-from-a-desperate-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/voter-id-laws-a-trumpian-culture-war-tactic-from-a-desperate-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter ID laws a Trumpian culture war tactic from a desperate government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say proposed voter identification laws are a solution in search of a problem that will only serve to disenfranchise voters who are already largely excluded from the political process.<br \/>\nThe mooted laws, which have long been championed by the far right, could wrongly exclude eligible voters, including First Nations voters, young voters, homeless or itinerant voters, and voters escaping domestic violence.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens deputy leader and democracy spokesperson Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cVoter identification laws are a purely political tactic from a government that\u2019s sliding in the polls and desperate to ignite a culture war to boost its electoral fortunes.<br \/>\n\u201cVoter ID laws are a solution in search of a problem. At the last federal election there were a total of 19 verified instances of double voting. There is zero credible evidence that election outcomes are being corrupted by voter fraud.<br \/>\n\u201cRecent legislative changes allow the Australian Electoral Commission to identify voters suspected of multiple voting and require their future ballots to be cast by declaration. This reform is more than enough to address any perceived risk of multiple voting.<br \/>\n\u201cFar from safeguarding our elections, voter identification laws would in fact be likely to make them less democratic, disenfranchising many citizens who are entirely eligible to vote.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government is insisting on seeing voters\u2019 IDs, but won\u2019t try to find out the ID of Porter\u2019s donors. And while they\u2019re rushing through a bill to deal with imaginary integrity issues, the Australian people are still waiting on an ICAC bill to deal with real integrity issues.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is cynical Trumpian politicking on the eve of an election, designed to inflame culture war tensions, undermine confidence in our electoral systems and suppress the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say proposed voter identification laws are a solution in search of a problem that will only serve to disenfranchise voters who are already largely excluded from the political process. The mooted laws, which have long been championed by the far right, could wrongly exclude eligible voters, including First Nations voters, young voters, homeless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/voter-id-laws-a-trumpian-culture-war-tactic-from-a-desperate-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voter ID laws a Trumpian culture war tactic from a desperate government&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}