{"id":73114,"date":"2025-07-28T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/28\/new-zealand-electoral-reform-maori-human-rights-law"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:51:20","slug":"new-zealand-attorney-general-warns-her-governments-electoral-reform-could-breach-human-rights-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73114","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand attorney general warns her government\u2019s electoral reform could breach human rights law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins also said the controversial electoral law reform could disenfranchise M\u0101ori<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Christopher Luxon has defended his government\u2019s plans to overhaul its electoral laws, despite warnings from his own attorney general the changes could breach human rights law and disenfranchise more than 100,000 voters.<\/p>\n<p>The right-wing government last week announced its plan to shake up electoral laws it said were \u201coutdated and unsustainable\u201d, including closing voter enrolment 13 days before election day, reinstating a total ban on prisoner voting and prohibiting anyone from providing free food, drink or entertainment within 100 metres of a voting station.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/28\/new-zealand-electoral-reform-maori-human-rights-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins also said the controversial electoral law reform could disenfranchise M\u0101oriNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister Christopher Luxon has defended his government\u2019s plans to overhaul its electoral laws, despite warnings from his own attorney general &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73114\/revisions\/73115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}