by Cimino | 15 Dec 2019 | Māori representation, MMP, STV
Aotearoa might best advance stv by enhancing mmp Aotearoa is not just the world’s first full democracy because it was first to enfranchise women. Thanks to New Zealand’s geographic isolation and late colonisation, a partnership approach was attempted from the get-go,...
by Cimino | 10 Dec 2019 | Democracy index, Election turnout, STV, Zero-carbon energy
Climate and democracy at the mercy of plutocracy Epically ironically, salvaging a survivable climate and a free society possibly now depends upon a one plutocrat deposing another plutocrat, turned dictator. Far preferably, Republican Party senators would suspend...
by Cimino | 23 Nov 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Concurrent elections, STV
It is more than semantics. In the thousand-year war to survive anthropogenic global heating, a magazine of silver bullets the size of the 59 000-hectare Hawthorne depot, Nevada, will be needed. However, regardless of the problem, received wisdom would have it,...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2019 | STV, Term of office
Big business would be the biggest loser, was a Labour-led government to legislate to prosecute non-voters. Currently, unlike Australians, New Zealanders are legally allowed to refrain from voting. But with global voter turnout in determined decline, New Zealand’s lack...
by Cimino | 11 Oct 2019 | Local, STV
Vote early and often to elect the first mayor of Mahurangi—of course, only the latest vote an individual casts will count. Because somebody votes early, they shouldn’t later be penalised when some late-breaking information causes them to revise their preferences: Vote...
by Cimino | 24 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Friend of the Mahurangi J Barry Ferguson has long argued the need for a local mayor. Mayors, to be legitimate, need to be elected by preference voting—known as stvsingle-transferable-vote in Aotearoa, and known as rcvranked-choice-voting in the United States, where...
