We would have to ignore the last election as it impossible to ascertain if everyone in every electorate, actually lived in the electorate in which they voted, and in future elections the voting officials would have to ask every voter: “Do you live in this electorate and have you voted elsewhere today?”

There are also too many grey areas as my own family demonstrates.

My daughter has moved to London but has registered to vote in Wodonga City, Benambra and Indi, with the agreement of the Australian Electoral Commission, as all her possessions, history and interest are now back in Wodonga and not in Melbourne where she has voted over the past four years.

Who knows where she will live when she returns in a couple of years, but why should she be disenfranchised because she is travelling overseas.

The instigators of the fuss didn’t think of the repercussions of their petty rabble-rousing.

— MIKE COPLAND,

Wodonga