by Cimino | 10 Dec 2019 | Election turnout, 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 their hatred of Democrats for the survival and...
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...
by Cimino | 17 Aug 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
First-past-the-post, 200 years after the first single transferable vote election, deserves to be a very distant memory. But, thanks to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance stvsingle-transferable-vote-ignoramuses, the region is about to elect its fourth mayor...
by Cimino | 24 May 2018 | Election turnout, Term of office, Youth voting
What’s good for doctors of medicine, it would appear, doesn’t apply to doctors of law. The imperative to first do no harm is being violated in the latest proposal by Dr Andrew Butler and Sir Geoffrey Palmer qc for a codified constitution for Aotearoa. In their second...
