Calls to cut pre-poll voting amid claims it is eroding ‘integrity’ of elections

NSW Nationals, Coalition MP Paul Fletcher, LNP MP Julian Simmonds and independent MP Bob Katter urge cut to number of pre-poll voting weeks

The New South Wales Nationals and its communications official, Paul Fletcher, had been incorporated into developing calls for the length of pre-poll voting before federal elections to be shortened.

In a submission to the inquiry examining the 2019 election, Fletcher forewarned the record number of Australians voting in pre-poll was eroding the “integrity and quality” of the electoral process.

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