by Cimino | 24 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Election turnout, Local, Local board, STV, Youth voting
Warkworth from 4000 to 20 000 by 2040. That would be a five-fold increase in less than half the 50 years it took the region to treble to today’s population, of about 1.5 million. With this planned growth-rate of more than three times the regional average, Warkworth is...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Local, Local board, Youth voting
Tessa Berger’s bonanza of national media coverage began locally, with the Rodney Times sending out its reporter Jay Boreham to interview Tessa in respect to her eye-catching billboards, one of which by then had been removed. Given evidence of its reasonably careful...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Concurrent elections, Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
Polling gets blamed for a lot of things. For starters, for influencing folk into voting for the winning side. Or, conversely, for influencing folk into voting for the underdog. Whereas, in an ideal world, voters would express their honestly held preference, regardless...
by Cimino | 10 Sep 2016 | Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
After three decades of Kids Voting, there is ample evidence to back it up. And for half that time, after it was imported from the United States by the then Auckland City Council, kids in Aotearoa have been at it. This year, a record 11 730 students in the Auckland...
by Cimino | 29 Aug 2016 | Berger for the board, Local board, STV, Youth voting
Voters, reasonably, seek to get their money’s worth. But thanks to obdurate royal commissionersin fairness, also to other governments and Auckland councils before and since, Auckland Council remains stuck in the bad old days of first-past-the-post, and voters are...
by Cimino | 29 Jul 2016 | Berger for the board, Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
In 2013, Len Brown was elected by a mere 16.5% of Aucklanders registered to vote. This was the result of an abysmal 35% turnout, and marginal popularity combined with the inevitable consequences of first-past-the-post. Dazed and disillusioned with the new governance...