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Private details of voters names and addresses will no longer be available publicly, or be allowed to be sold to third parties, if recommendations by the independent electoral review are adopted.
These are part of a sweeping review into the country's electoral system including a proposal to lower the voting age to 16, lowering the threshold for a party to make it into parliament from five percent to three-and-a-half per cent and a public referendum on a longer Parliamentary term.
The review is also recommending a proposed cap on the total amount a donor can make to a political party or candidate, and that financial donations to political parties above $1000 should be publicly reported. Kathryn speaks with Professor Andrew Geddis, a panel member of the Independent Electoral Review and a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago.
