The ballot boxes should be sealed both top and bottom.
Also they should be numbered and every one accounted for. At present it is far too easy for an additional box to be smuggled in or one taken out or ballot papers to be removed or added.
We are voting for people to be members of Parliament to make our laws and control our country and its destiny. This should be done by its citizens not by people who are citizens of another country which is what permanent residents are.
The countries of the permanent residents may have policies that are in conflict with those of New Zealand but because of the permanent residents block voting, they can alter the composition of our government and inflict those laws, which are contrary to our interests, on us.
Will the politicians have the guts to restrict the right to vote to citizens or will they pander to the permanent residents who make up a large proportion of their electorate?
Arthur Moore, Pakuranga