by Cimino | 25 Sep 2009 | Cartoons, MMP
Only half know what they are doing. That’s in general elections, where the turnout puts local government elections to shame—in spite of voters needing to travel no further than the mailbox. And not only do a mere 52%post the 2003 election understand ‘which of the two...
by Cimino | 10 Nov 2007 | STV
With the third excruciating reversal of fortunes, Wayne Walker is once again a Rodney District councillor. On election night Walker was provisionally ahead of running mate, runner up Colin MacGillivray, by four votes. However, the position changed the following...
by Cimino | 4 Nov 2007 | STV
First-time visitors often overshoot the turnoff into Ngārewa Drive. It is not because the road to the Mahurangi Regional Parkspecifically, Mahurangi Regional Park – West—Ngārewa Drive—is poorly sign-posted, indeed there are now three major elements to the signposting:...
by Cimino | 4 Nov 2007 | MMP
Updated 16 November 2011 The member of Parliament’s ‘What’s to fix with mmp’ wasn’t rhetorical, and consequently the editor was somewhat taken aback. It was a sharp reminder that opinion on mixed-member proportional is, mixed. That it is either a huge improvement on...
by Cimino | 17 Oct 2007 | STV
Trawling through the results of the 2007 local body elections where single transferable voting was used, reveals only discouragingly impenetrable representations of the process involved. Some results were simply listed as Elected and Not Elected. Others provided data...
by Stephen Todd | 8 Oct 2007 | STV
L e t t e r Stephen Todd, Wellington Goodness me, what a pleasant surprise. I thought I had already disappeared into history, not even making it to footnote status, and then you came along! Thank you so much for plucking me from obscurity and giving me a pat on...
