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		<title>Public Address | Cafe | Access: Part 5: The tide will turn if floater voters make enough waves</title>
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				<title>Rosemary McDonald</title>
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						<p>And from our cousins over the ditch...<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11925558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Down syndrome woman denied right to vote.</a></p><p>You'd really need to read entire to grasp the big picture.  </p><p>Irony alert!!</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sept 2017 09:54:24 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						<p><q>DPA eagerly awaits</q><br />We deserve more active advocacy, community organising and leadership than that.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sept 2017 12:40:01 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Tom Johnson</title>
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						<p><q> too tired to fight.</q> </p><p>I think that's how the right win these days, just tire you out with nonsense, make something so uncomfortable that you just retreat for sanity reasons</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sept 2017 22:35:57 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Rosemary McDonald</title>
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						<p><q>Mother too tired to fight.</q></p><p>This I get.</p><p>Perhaps one of those instances where a call or an email to a disability friendly journalist might be appropriate?</p><p>If only to put it out there to see if others have been treated this way.</p><p>Incidentally, from what I understand,  the only…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sept 2017 21:47:01 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						Just heard from a friend whose non-verbal adult daughter was not allowed to vote because she couldn't say her name.Mother too tired to fight. She has voted until now. The Easyvote card used to be sufficient.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sept 2017 17:01:33 +1200</pubDate>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sept 2017 17:01:33 +1200</pubDate>
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