This submission makes no comment on the intent of the Bill, which is to ensure that all those sentenced to a period of detention are ineligible to vote. Instead, it identifies the privacy interests that the Bill raises, and suggests a method by which those interests can be appropriately managed.

Our recommendation is that if the information disclosures that currently occur under section 81 of the Electoral Act 1993 are expanded, as would be the effect of this Bill, they should be more formally established as an authorised information matching programme.

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11 June 2010