The business of boundaries
Sean McWeeney, QC, who chaired the last Constitutional Review Commission, which proposed merging the functions of elections management and boundaries review into a single independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
We are at that point in the term once again when the state of our electoral system comes fully into focus, the urgent need for reforms to modernize the preparations for and staging of our general election is underscored, and our political leaders seem less focused on governing and more concerned with getting re-elected.
Just over a year after Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis declared that there will be no changes to the boundaries ahead of the next election, the constitutionally-mandated Constituencies Commission is preparing its final report now that it has the latest numbers on registered voters.