Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Interesting, given that probably the only future for his party is under MMP.
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And apparently it gets worse.
He did some similar style writing for Critic in the early 1980s - equating manly physical thrusting with the target of feminism.
Apparently an arsehole for 30 years and counting.
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Kinda makes sense though I'm not sure anything on my book shelf balances my remixed CD of Kylie
Someone revoke this man's kiwi passport.
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So basically, the last rank doesn't matter. On the other hand, if i didn't rank either of them I wouldn't have expressed an opinion and my vote would be eliminated as non-transferrable.
Yes. Effectively by reducing the quota you would have voted half for each of them.
If you rank all but one candidate, you are effectively ranking all candidates.
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Paul,
I think the details are here:
"non-transferable votes means the votes remaining untransferred when a voting document becomes exhausted"
These are taken off the total number of votes. So your vote doesn't become equally distributed, but the quota falls as people's voting cards run out of options.
Quota is (votes - non-transferable votes) / (number of vacancies +1) + 0.0000000001.
So if there are 50 000 votes and 9 vacancies, the quota is 5000.
If 10,000 votes become exhausted, the quota is 4000. It keeps getting recalculated as they go through the process.
It works the same way in practice - if you don't list all the way, you help all people who you don't list get elected. You're not voting for them, but you are reducing the quota that they need to reach, so it works out for them anyway.
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Does anyone else compulsively (but discreetly) go to parties check out their host's bookshelves, records and DVD collections?
I find the books that people have on the shelves interesting, but I don't think I'd assume it says that much about who they are. For many years I carried about 6 boxes of a collection of fantasy books that I'd had since I was a teenager from house to house.
DVDs definitely. That says what a person has been like in the past ten years, my DVD collection says a fair bit about what I like to watch (and read actually).
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OK, here's a question for the local politics nerds: If one is inclined to vote negatively on the STV portion of the ballot, is it better to rank every candidate, so the ones you _least__ like are positively placed last, or is it better to simply not put a number next to them at all?
Actually, my understanding differs from Hilary's and Paul's. If your vote, or part of it gets to the end of your ranked candidates, it then gets evenly split amongst the people you haven't ranked. I'll need to check that.
If that's ture you should actually rank every candidate, even if that means putting your ones you don't want in in order and ranking them 'least hated' to 'most hated'.
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yeah a bunch of candidates here in Dunedin were to me quite unelectable - they didn't offer anything but themselves - no plans, no policy, no idea of where they stand on the issues (will you continue to shovel buckets of public debt into the stadium white elephant so that the rugby boys will keep inviting you to their parties?)
Personally I have mixed feelings about the stadium, so that wasn't too useful a voting guide.
I tended to vote for left-looking or green candidates, but any candidates who seemed to largely just be fanatically anti-stadium and not much else (eg. Bev Butler, whose campaign blurb included "I was a maths teacher so I understand city council finances" was one) I left unordered.
There were hints about public transport being a big upcoming issue in Dunedin (a couple of candidates have talked about taking it over from the ORC), but I've seen very little in terms of good proposals in the campaigning, which is disappointing. Anyone who'd pushed the harbour side cycle-way in their blurb would have got a vote just on that basis.
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Garrett resigned effective midnight tonight.
Hasn't Hilary Calvert suddenly become the most interesting member of parliament? She really controls the future of ACT during this term.
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Not only does Boag seem to not see how that is wrong, she is too ignorant to just use a private email account. Or you might say it's framing it as some technical problem that's to blame, not a human decision.
Remarkably amateur I thought. Blaming it on a signature while using her work email address. How hard can it be?