{"id":35112,"date":"2019-10-07T02:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35112"},"modified":"2019-10-07T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:07:04","slug":"calls-to-cut-pre-poll-voting-amid-claims-it-is-eroding-integrity-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35112","title":{"rendered":"Calls to cut pre-poll voting amid claims it is eroding &#8216;integrity&#8217; of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Nationals, Coalition MP Paul Fletcher, LNP MP Julian Simmonds and independent MP Bob Katter urge cut to number of pre-poll voting weeks<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a submission to the inquiry examining the 2019 election, Fletcher forewarned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/About_Parliament\/Parliamentary_Departments\/Parliamentary_Library\/FlagPost\/2019\/May\/Trends_in_early_voting_in_federal_elections\">the record number<\/a> of Australians voting in pre-poll was eroding the &ldquo;integrity and quality&rdquo; of the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/oct\/03\/calls-to-cut-pre-poll-voting-amid-claims-it-is-eroding-integrity-of-elections\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/oct\/03\/calls-to-cut-pre-poll-voting-amid-claims-it-is-eroding-integrity-of-elections\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19478,19955,19954],"class_list":["post-35112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-australia-news","tag-liberal-party","tag-national-party"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77281570414025.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}