by Cimino | 18 Sep 2020 | Direct democracy
Act now for Aotearoa to own Democracy Day 2021 With Donald Trump’s best prospects now being immediate resignation and a prompt Mike Pence pardon, the United States’ flawed democracy might now survive long enough to face redemption. Shy seven weeks, it is 20 years from...
by Cimino | 29 Dec 2019 | Campaign Finance Reform, Election turnout, MMP, STV
Compulsory voting cart before smarter-democracy horse 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...
by Cimino | 10 Dec 2019 | Election turnout, STV, Zero-carbon energy
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 self-interest for the survival and dignity of their...
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 | 10 Oct 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Local, Youth voting
It’s long since time to jettison the obligatory if-we-don’t-act-on-climate-within-so-many-years exhortation. Truth is that, since 1988, when not only Dr James Hansen but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher“we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
Ideally, the bicentennial of stvsingle-transferable-vote should be held where the Birmingham Society for Literary and Scientific Improvement held the world’s first election with it. But even if that ultimate location—were it known, and were it still standing—was the...
