Posts by Phil Lyth
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Tim McKenzie / Punchscan
interesting. Hadn't previously heard of it. Not convinced yet. Will read more.
The issue is, people have to have confidence in voting systems.
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I am reasonably au fait with the NZ electoral process and systems. It is pretty sound.
Postal voting for local Councils passes the same tests.
It doesn't pass the "secret ballot" test.
I have emailed Don to discuss offline, and have said I am happy to discuss online. His choice, I think the issue is geeky enough to take offlien.
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I've stood up as a scutineer several times
the security and confidentiality of ballots is taken incredibly seriously
OMG, Craig and I agree. Can I take something for it?
Seriously, I encourage everyone to act as a scrutineer for the party/candidate of their choice. It is about participating in democracy.
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Don't ever give away your secret ballot, no matter how attractive internet/postal voting looks.
We have a voting system for Parliament that is both secret and allows dual votes to be found and removed. It can be ubject to vigorous scrutiny by parties and stands up to scrutiny. It has audit trails and is verifiable.
Postal voting for local Councils passes the same tests.
Internet voting does not. </hobbyhorse> But happy to provide more info to those who click the little envelope below my name.
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I mind MPs wriggling their finances
One of the things that bureaucrats - Ministerial Services, IIRC< but it could have been another group - did each year was to remind Ministers about two months ahead of time that the deadline for the declarations for the Register of Ministers Interests was looming, and that Ministers could 'take the opportunity to rearrange their finances'.
Yes, they went to that length to encourage the practice.
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I like thoughtful posts. I also like the print media's practice of telling us a little about their Guest Speakers, eg the Herald on Monday told us at the foot of the piece on heavier trucks that
Tim Davin is director of public policy at IPENZ (Engineers New Zealand)
Would Russell or Adam mind doing the same here? I'm guessing that Adam is the person whose submission is on the Royal Commission's site re Auckland governance.
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provocation will be scrapped by a government bill.
I noted on the Island Life thread last Thursday that Lianne Dalziel's bill to do the same had been drawn from the ballot. Shame the Herald didn't report that fact.
Shades of a cartoon (Tom Scott?) brilliantly portraying Shipley on labelling. You'd have thought it was about labelling food, until the punchline revealed Shipley wanted a bill with a National label rather than Bunkle's bill with an Alliance label.
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As someone said before, he has this image of himself as a little kiwi battler
Who has a thoroughly distorted view of the circumstances genuine Kiwi battlers face. A former producer tells the tale from about '93 or '94, a time when tax rate policies were being publicly discussed.
The producer relates, So Paul said, What does this mean for the average guy. He grabbed a calculator and starting tapping away, saying, Let's see, for every $100,000 a year I get, it means . . . .
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too much garlic
nor is there any such concept as too much wasabi
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If somebody poached Lyndon, Danyl, Robyn and Ian they could drive The Onion out of business inside of six months.
Poach them? Over a gentle heat at stand 92A of The Food Show?
But serious why couldn't the Fabulous FOur start bulbinella.com * themselves? David Slack was not biting at all the day I ran the idea past him.
* Google it