We will all be much better off, if those who were too slack to enroll previously, although eligible, do not now get to vote.

One of the main problems with this country is that we are spoon feeding too many people, who are just not worth feeding.

Hasbeen that's a false correlation. It's likely the people who don't vote could be more informed about domestic and world issues than those who do vote.

One shouldn't be too hard on Ed Coper, even if he is too blinded by a 'football club' style of loyalty to his own political biases to realize that it is the whole 'code of the game' that may have been subverted in Australia, when speaking with respect to electoral manipulation and the structuring of electoral law.

Ed is to be thanked for highlighting some glaring contradictions between different sets of official statistics that should in fact be in agreement, but are not.

Ed parrots the claim "Despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud....", a claim echoed around the traps by many who hold themselves out as being electorally knowledgeable across the political spectrum. As if evidence would be lying about on the surface in a matter so deadly serious as the wholesale subversion of the electoral process! You have to dig for it, and sadly Ed shows up as one of those too lazy, too complacent, or too one-eyed to do any such digging himself. He is, even more sadly, not alone in this among the many trying to influence the "choice" the genuinely lawful electors of Australia will shortly have to attempt to make.

The population statistics of Australia, published by the ABS, competently handled, should be capable of giving a very good indication of the number of persons eligible for electoral enrolment. The electoral enrolment statistics of Australia, published monthly in the Gazette, show the actual number of enrolments on the rolls.

Reconciliation of these two sets of statistics should show the extent of the eligible population that actually appears to have effected electoral enrolment. Problem is that for many years it seems that close to, or in excess of, 100% of the eligible appear to have been enrolled. Where does that leave room for the 410,000 eligible, but claimedly not currently enrolled, electors of which Ed (and Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn) speaks? Something is wrong and Ed should make an effort to find out what it is!

John Howard trying to "swing shut the doors of democracy" early? Read the Proclamations!