Open Letter: Dear Prakash Raj, Suspicion Is Not Evidence
You have raised a perfectly legitimate question: how does one protect the right of every genuine citizen to vote? The trouble begins when a legitimate question is followed by an illegitimate conclusion. You appear to suggest that checking the voters’ list is somehow an assault on democracy. That is a little like saying that counting the family silver is an insult to the family. A voters’ list, after all, is not a family heirloom. People are born, turn 18, die, marry, migrate, change houses and occasionally manage to acquire more than one entry in official records. Governments therefore have the rather boring duty of keeping their records up to date. Boring, perhaps. Undemocratic, certainly not. You yourself have made the perfectly sensible point that new voters should be added, the names of the dead removed and addresses changed when people move. Quite right. But if that is the case, what exactly is the objection to revising the electoral rolls? The objection, I presume, is not to revi...
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