by Cimino | 21 May 2015 | Electoral enrolment
With just 37% of the votes, the Conservatives have grabbed 100% of the power. If New Zealanders needed a reminder of just how unfair the first-past-the-post system they dumped at the 1993 referendum is, then the United Kingdom’s general election result has just...
by Cimino | 30 Dec 2014 | Global-warming and population, Representation, Sea-level rise, Youth voting
Best understood by least represented Cohort that best understands the enormity of anthropogenic global warming is that least represented in Parliament. It is also the age-group that is least enrolled, and votes least. But given the great gulf between the awful reality...
by Cimino | 10 Sep 2014 | Election turnout, MMP, Youth voting
mmp permits youth to be given lifetime licence to vote Before 1996, it mattered—in order to participate in an election, a person needed to be registered in an electorate. This requirement reflected the Westminster system whereby the extent of a voter’s democratic...
by Cimino | 8 Sep 2014 | Coalition democratisation, MMP, Parliament, Representation
It must be exercising the mind of ‘Mattiavelli’ McCarten. Simply give the job of prime minister, post the election, to ‘Wily’ Winston. After all, it is entirely up to the winning bloc as to who the prime minister should be. Across all voters, Winston Peters would...
by Cimino | 25 Oct 2013 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, MMP, Online, STV
Another local body election, and another uninformed swipe at STV. While it is probable that the at-large, single-transferable-vote, district health board elections are the single biggest reason only a third of Aucklanders returned their ballots, the explanations for...
by David Cunliffe | 29 Apr 2012 | Climate action economics, Election turnout
Speech to the New Lynn Women’s Branch of the Labour Party Introduction You know that at the last election, the one that we lost so badly, nearly one million people didn’t vote; more thansorry, sorry, but the Mahurangi Magazine just cannot bring itself allow ‘over’ in...
