by Cimino | 15 Sep 2007 | STV
Safety in numbers. Unlike Wellington City and seven other local bodies, Rodney District Council and the rest of the herd have clung to first-past-the-post. The council, when rejecting preference voting prior to the 2004 election, denied the community the courtesy of...
by Stephen W Todd | 1 Feb 2003 | STV
Introduced by Cimino 2007; updated 2018 Stephen Todd played the pivotal role in the introduction of single transferable voting to Aotearoa. The road to local-body electoral reform was long, hard and heroic, but New Zealanders and their district and regional...
by Cimino | 23 Feb 1947 | MMP
Evidence-based voter-turnout-decline interventions Ordered by urgency of deployment Year-7–15 voting as curtain-raiser Universal year-7–15 voting in schools—extended Kids Voting Election Day enrol-and-vote Concurrent elections, which will quickly recoup the...
by Cimino | 23 Feb 1947 | Direct democracy, Electoral systems
Referendums crude instruments if used crudely or cravenly Had the party campaigned in favour of capital gains tax, guaranteed minimum income, and legalisation of cannabis, Labour would be staring down the barrel of a one-year term. Courage is not rewarded when a...
