The National Party's position is very clear on this issue: people who commit a crime in New Zealand, who commit an offence where they are sentenced to prison, lose their right to vote. It's simple. If you do the crime, you do the time. And that is the simple principle of the matter. The Green Party have a separate principle. They believe that all prisoners should be able to vote, and that's a fair enough principle. But the Government comes at this from a very strange perspective. Well, that is something which is completely untenable, and it doesn't matter how many times the Minister tries to stand in Parliament and say there's a principle around why prisoners who are serving sentences of less than three years is different from prisoners sentenced to longer than three years, there is no principle to the matter. It's just convenience, and he's trying to make it more palatable to New Zealand voters rather than to actually be truthful about what he actually wants.