Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to Islander,
Blind colleagues assure me they need someone to mark the ballot for them in national elections. I defer to their expertise on it.
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to BenWilson,
had me scratching my head as to what actual benefits were conferred by using a machine
Ask a blind person who currently can not cast a vote on their own in NZ.
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There was heaps of talk about Diebold and other dodgy Republican-connected voting machine-makers a few elections ago. Maybe it has become normalised in the US discourse, like the bailing out of banks?
There's an interesting tension between security/audit and better accessibility in electronic voting, but it's reconcilable.
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It seems a little unfair to land on Gower with both feet for sharing the same Civics101 Fail as a non-trivial proportion of the locals.
We're still getting lots of first-past-post 'horse race' political analysis from NZ media as well.
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At least twice during the campaign, Morning Report has invited comment from the discredited Republican pollster Fritz Wenzel, who has, unsurprisingly, been nothing like an honest broker. Radio New Zealand has done its listeners a grave disservice by not even attempting to place Wenzel's claims in context. He is a partisan hack, basically.
As Nicky Hager noted in his recent Bruce Jesson lecture, several NZ media outlets have shamelessly hosted a regular column by a guy who personally briefs the leader of our current governing political party on the political polls he continuously conducts for them.
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Putting in place and overseeing project risk and escalation processes is not the job of those at the bottom. Poor governance is a big problem throughout NZ organisations.
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Love the middle shot, Jackson. They should hire you.
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OnPoint: #WTFMSD: "Damning", in reply to BenWilson,
no one would ever know
except oneself, grasshopper
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OnPoint: #WTFMSD: "Damning", in reply to BenWilson,
keep
rather different ethical/legal implications
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OnPoint: #WTFMSD: "Damning", in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Not a formal economic analysis. And stupidity, yes. Report mentions project management defects and inadequate approach to risk.