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 | 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...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2014 | Corruption
It’s all the proof that was needed. That, as urged by Kim Dotcom, the mainstream media needs to ‘wake up’ and do its job. By the morning after the packed-to-overflowing ‘Moment of Truth’ meeting in Auckland Town Hall on Monday night, the mainstream media should have...
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...
