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I think it's time to revisit this - bit.ly/2T5ey4S

Thomas More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s!...
...And if you cut them down, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!

Sections 118 and 129 of the Electoral Act spell out 2 years for ballot box snatching.
Second, the data shows that ballot box snatching has been on the wane since the reforms that followed the Justice Uwais panel.

In 2015, there were a total of 140 election irregularities, including ballot box snatching. Think about it for a second, 140 out of 119,974 PUs!
But now, we want to kill people on allegations of ballot box snatching, and people are defending it?

There is a reason that there are laws. The shoe would be on the other foot one day...
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