by Cimino | 7 Nov 2016 | MMP, Sea-level rise
His timing is impeccable, and his mission merciful. Immediately mocked by the mainstream media, Gareth Morgan’s launch of a party dedicated to eliminating poverty and closing the inequality gap is a cause worthy of wholehearted support, even by the mean-minded....
by Cimino | 27 Sep 2016 | Election turnout, Representation, STV
Every local-body election since its introduction, sees the same disinformation. The rock-solid single-transferable-vote system, first computerised in Aotearoa and used by her for 12 years, is set to endure its triennial onslaught of slings and arrows....
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 | 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 | 10 Jun 2015 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, Online, Youth voting
It is possible to put a price on better democracy. At least to the extent that combining local and general elections would nearly halve the cost of holding them, and massively improve local-body turnout to boot. Extensive experience elsewhere suggests that if New...
by Cimino | 1 Oct 2014 | MMP
Corrected 5 October 2014 Like Dirty Politics, Watergate was revealed ahead of an election that saw the perpetrating political party rewarded, by being returned to power with an increased majority. Five months after five burglars were caught in Democratic Party offices...
