No, of course, but I'm not the first to say this. In fact people who read this bill said it long before I did.
The unintended consequences of what we're doing here is that we're taking away the franchise of certain citizens to vote, because we're saying that this tool that they would have, a statutory declaration, will be taken away. I don't know how else to describe this but to say that we're taking away their access to vote. Particularly, when you look later on at vouching, we're proposing that we take away the ability of more than one person to vouch for another person.
So I think in the end, Chair, I would plead with those who are on the side of making our voting system more egalitarian, and not less, to support this amendment.
Thank you, Chair.