Seymour's 'dropkick' voters comment unhelpful: minister

Seymour's 'dropkick' voters comment unhelpful: minister

The changes are primarily being made to improve the timeliness of the official vote count, and so give voters certainty of a result. Photo: Electoral Commission By Giles Dexter and Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira of RNZ Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says comments made by the Deputy Prime Minister - calling voters who enrol late "dropkicks" - are "unhelpful", as changes to voter enrolment are rolled out.

Only a dropkick would want to make voting harder

National has announced electoral law changes that will disenfranchise some voters who tend to vote left. And David Seymour has described them as being dropkicks.