I enrolled after the August cut-off date, so I wasn't on the printed roll. My own fault (well, I'll share it with the people at my previous address, not forwarding my mail). But anyway, I've learned my lesson: if you move house, you should re-enrol,…

Of course... but even if it's a lie, it's not an opinion.

Assumes person answering is telling the truth.

But surely an exit poll is not an opinion poll?

Q) Who would you like to win? A) Opinion
Q) Who do you think will win? A) Opinion…

Yeah, last election, our advance…

A basic requirement along with signs on all likely approaches, surely.

I found a conveniently nearby location for me from the map of Advance Voting locations:
Auckland University,
AUSA Club Space,
The…

The Conversation has a topical article on voting restrictions, based on a study into support for explicitly including young people in government decision-making. Although given the popularity of sham "community consultation" perhaps that would just make younger people more cynical, sooner?

It was added into the Electoral Act by the Select Committee during an amendment law making other changes. It appears to have been a concern about the effect EasyVote cards had had on the process of voting.…

I expect they would be noticed by the officers and/or scrutineers, and told in no uncertain terms to bugger off.

Yes. Also if coercion is a problem. Controlling husband won't let you out on election day? Do it when you do the shopping some time in the preceding weeks.

No, but a photo would not really be sufficient proof anyway. They could have already advance voted and then put something that looks like a ballot paper in the box, but isn't, and then just taken their ballot paper…

Yes it is. It clearly made a sufficient impression my kids last time that this election they pay…

Absolutely go for it.

Actually, we should take it up with the National-dominated select committee who in 2014 sprang it on us as a measure to counter their fantasy election fraud (i.e. make it…

197 (e)
at any time on polling day before the close of the poll, conducts a public opinion poll in relation to the election:

I'd be interested in how they think they have (criminal) jurisdiction over an act outside NZ.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM328024.html#DLM328024
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM328023.html
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0087/122.0/whole.html#DLM3486936

Well in 2014 I had a little run in with the Electoral Commission around an exit poll. full story here but the relevant threatening language is:

__Under section…

I have taken photographs inside polling place and been told off, even though Ive taken care to avoid photographs of other ballots. I would note it is common for photographs to be taken of party…

I have never voted on election day and have always gone in one afternoon earlier in…

You might very well think that. But I, and I cannot emphasise this enough, __couldn't possibly comment.

But also, bear in mind, scrutineers.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to engage on…

I should do that, it's not as though one more submission will unduly tax me. But just to be clear, the second quote you replied to was Jeremy not me.

If you wanted to make a point, finding a mute person…

Just to note, the tablet is advance voting only, and just a trial.

If I was feeling protective about such a person of my acquaintance (again, I'm not), I might be inclined to be a dick about it to make a point, and…

That. Making it bluntly illegal would be very useful. I'm not sure of the penalty though, coercion makes that decision pretty fraught.

I can't immediately find the refs but it definitely was in 2014. At least one NZ celebrity was publicly slapped for posting a photo, and countless others were also photographing their ballot papers and posting them to social media. Usually with good intentions, of course,…

That's surprisingly practical in Aotearoa because of the comparatively liberal voting restrictions and the largely computerised systems we have for tracking people. Emma already mentioned the tablet, for example. It would be almost trivial if…

They're really asking for pedantry there, IMO. I'm kinda wondering if you could register 💩 as the name of a political party instead. Or more to my taste, "😍🚲❣ Party"

And then possibly get rid…

Yeah, they should be sitting down set back behind the issuing desk, with the desks…

Using Gööglə I didn't find anything quickly, but my first thought was that your name should be such that Births/Deaths/Marriage would also accept it. All I could find here was…

I would hate to get to the polls and be told someone had already voted for me!

Again, "Yes that's my name" would have been sufficient in 2014.…

I'm so intrigued by…

My name is Moz, with the M pronounced with a ph sound and the oz to rhyme with "duck you". I fear that my attempt to exaggerate will be quickly met with an example of a name that is less phonetic. Yatkznintaayh pronounced…

Exit polls are common overseas, but not used in NZ. Is there anything to stop…

This is really a thing? I know this comes across as pompous as hell, but I like the idea of polling places being secular sacred spaces and one…

To me it seems one of the things that should be made clearly illegal under the Electoral Act, because the ability for people to create evidence of how…

BTW – parents please take your kids with you on election day when you vote, we did it every time, so they knew it's an important part of becoming an adult ...

Will they know if i mispronounce it? Can they say “no, that’s not how i think it’s said”.. ?

What is the point here other than outing transgender people…

*I usually far prefer reading to watching a video, because then I can absorb it at my…

https://vimeo.com/227972965

Why would you want to do that?

Aw, thanks Andrew. Tbh, I started laying off them because so many people are reading them on Devices, and so don't get mouse-over text.

Thank you…

I asked, and they were quite cagey about it, so... It was voter-eligibility related.