Posts by Michael Homer
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Legal Beagle: Referendum '11: counting…, in reply to Steve Curtis,
Yes (almost). They're included in the total counts, but get listed as zero on the booth-by-booth breakdown. It's "fewer than 6" though, so places with exactly six votes do appear.
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More visualisations for Auckland Central, Christchurch Central, Epsom, Mana, Mangere, Manukau East, Mt Albert, Ōhariu, Rongotai, and Wellington Central again, with the top five parties at each booth.
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Here is a hacked-up visualisation of party votes in Wellington Central by polling place. Visible area of each circle is proportionate to votes received, and the circles proceed inwards from the most to least votes (for the top three parties at each booth). It's less interesting than I'd expected, but it would work just as well for another electorate if anybody knows somewhere that might be more edifying.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to bmk,
I meant a vote – typing too fast.
No, you don't. Speakers have voted for a decade and a half.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to bmk,
You do lose a seat for speaker
No you don't. Not for fifteen years.
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Legal Beagle: The New Zealand Election Tax, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Why 5% then? If it's to discourage candidates who aren't seriously contesting the electorate, why not 30%? 40%? You can't tell me that Jeremy Greenbrook-Held seriously intends to win Helensville; he's running solely as a stunt to drive publicity for his party. Why not discourage Labour candidacies that aren't going anywhere? Or similarly in a safe Labour seat.
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They can go to the TMO when the ball is or may be in the in-goal area to check groundings, foul play in the in-goal, and whether a player was in touch when they grounded the ball. They can also do it for goal kicks. You can't check anything that happens entirely in the field of play (between the trylines).
If Dagg had grounded the ball and potentially been in touch it would have been reviewable, but since he didn't have the ball over the try-line the referee can only talk to the touch judges about it. It's law 6.A.6 (PDF).
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The link's meant to go to "SAS had key role in Kabul firefight - report".
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Legal Beagle: Practical considerations, in reply to Craig Young,
It’d only take Boscawen or Douglas to step aside for Brash to re-enter.
He's not on the list.
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Here is the paper from the International Journal of Climatology: Rhoades, D.A. and Salinger, M.J., 1993: Adjustment of temperature and rainfall measurements for site changes. Int. Journal of Climatology 13, 899 – 913.. I haven't read it yet, but have at anybody who's interested.