I appreciate that one of the effects of being homeless, among other damaging effects, is that someone can be disfranchised.
I cannot for the life of me see why the professional classes who occupy premises under this system should be disfranchised.
We gave careful consideration to this and thought that a constituency should not be disfranchised for longer than a month.
As a result, a large number of people in the constituency felt disfranchised.
The other real irony of this case lies in the people who are censuring him for lack of integrity, for disfranchising.
If the number of persons is limited to two who may be enfranchised, that clearly would disfranchise two of those women.
You are disfranchising people who are entitled to a vote, and whose qualifications to vote have never caused any demur or any question.
The electorate are disfranchised and disenchanted by our confrontational system of party politics, which is entrenched by first-past-the-post systems.
