In New Zealand, it's not easy to be given a prison sentence. You need to have committed serious things to be sentenced to imprisonment, and people who have received sentences of up to three and more years are not small-time criminals. Again, people have committed serious offences—that would mean assaults, violent robberies, family violence offences, and sexual offences. There is a wide spectrum of offences that equates to imprisonment and taking away of a person's rights. This is why National is opposed to the current bill, bill No. 2: Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill (No 2). This is why National was opposed to bill No. 1, the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill.