Hon Dr NICK SMITH: The third reason is that there's a requirement in the law that candidates are known at least 20 working days before the election. That's fair enough. Of course, the voter has a right to know who the candidates are so they can go and check them out and make sure that they are reputable people, listen to what they say, test their policies. That's at the heart of democracy. But there's a quid pro quo: if the voters have a right to know who the candidates are, don't the candidates have a right to be able to know who the enrolled voters are so that they can communicate with them and that they can present to them their policies, ideas, so that they can be persuaded to the merits to either vote for them or not?