BNN is a funny animal. It seems to me that the site is silent until Walton stumbles across something in Senate or the PLP grapevine. Is BNN a blog, a news website, or just the “PLP Newswire”?
I have to laugh about this headline:
This is very much in the vein of the PLP’s campaign smears in the last election where they accused “the UBP wants to lock us all up” … only to now rush through laws that go far beyond anything that the UBP had proposed!
The UBP bill would require the Parliamentary Registrar to keep the voters’ list up to date.
Duh.
There is a reason for this, as scrutineers in the last election found many voters registered in constituencies where they did not live. With Bermuda’s tight electoral margins this makes a real difference. While PLP won the vast majority of seats in the last election, the popular vote was actually pretty tight. A few votes here and there can change who is elected MP.
Allowing people to register in the wrong constituencies skews our democracy.
Come on BNN, you can do better than that slanted headline! If you want to write a political analysis blog, that’s great, but then drop the pretense of being a news outlet.
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