by Cimino | 10 Oct 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Local, Youth voting
It’s long since time to jettison the obligatory if-we-don’t-act-on-climate-within-so-many-years exhortation. Truth is that, since 1988, when not only Dr James Hansen but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher“we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of...
by Cimino | 24 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Friend of the Mahurangi J Barry Ferguson has long argued the need for a local mayor. Mayors, to be legitimate, need to be elected by preference voting—known as stvsingle-transferable-vote in Aotearoa, and known as rcvranked-choice-voting in the United States, where...
by Cimino | 21 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Some dots can take longer to connect. And the more obvious the dot, the longer it seems to take for it to be connected. Since the announcement of the terms of reference of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, the Mahurangi Magazine has been exploring ways that...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
Ideally, the bicentennial of stvsingle-transferable-vote should be held where the Birmingham Society for Literary and Scientific Improvement held the world’s first election with it. But even if that ultimate location—were it known, and were it still standing—was the...
by Cimino | 17 Aug 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
First-past-the-post, 200 years after the first single transferable vote election, deserves to be a very distant memory. But, thanks to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance stvsingle-transferable-vote-ignoramuses, the region is about to elect its fourth mayor...
by Cimino | 3 Mar 2019 | Local, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
There is much to applaud and support in Warkworth’s draft structure plan. Submissions are invited, as is statutorily required, prior to the final stages of the process, labelled, on the flow chart: Changes to Structure Plan and Adoption Or, as the text would have it:...
