It really just comes down to Public Address Rule One: Don't be a dick.

Which is what it all comes down to anyway.

I don't have comments anyway, so its not so much of an issue for me. But I won't be blogging about politics on the day (though I?

Why not open the thread on polling experiences now? I voted before I left (no?

But that would disable discussion on thousands of topics, the vast majority of which have nothing to do with the election.

I wonder if the Electoral Commission's advice is based around the misconception that "blog = politics". If someone has a food blog, are they realistically going to get any?

But what if people's polling day experiences suck?

"It took an hour and the?

As Idiot/Savant, I think, put it beautifully: Election Day isn?t about the media or the politicians. It?s belongs to the rest of us from midnight on Friday until the last polling place locks its doors.

Good point. I'll make sure Scoop Media take house ads out of the rotate.

I think you might want to leave your phone in your pocket and on silent. I must own to a touch of scadenfreude when a scrutineer for?

Is there anything but boring bits when you're scrutineering?

I have to have my phone off from 8am to about 10pm. I dunno how I'm going to cope. I need someone to sneak me?

That's probably fine. "Greens" isn't the name of a political party "The Greens, The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand" and "Green Party" are names of a political party, but "greens" is not.

"Mana" (not "Mana Party") is the name of a?

Nek minnit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR9ha5l9FzM&feature=related

(Make the act to) tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree...

When [Jacinda]'s walking down the street I see red, I see red, I see red

For United we stand, divided we fail

Am I allowed to talk about the polling booth, which is within a school that has no art teacher,?

I can find it pretty similar antecedent in the Electoral Act 1905, but didn?t see one in my quick look at the Electoral Act 1893. It wouldn?t surprise me to find out that there was.

Be careful who you show that speedy vote card to, if it has the word "Mana" on it.

Well, they are, but probably not. It's mostly an acknowledgement that 19 hours of limits on free expression might be okay, but 19 days would not be (and would indeed?

Oh great, I've been reading this site for over a damned decade and now you finally tell us what Rule No One is! :) #attemptstodeleteallpreviousposts

Well, rule 34 can be so much more interesting than rule 1.

Yeah, Russell, aren't you being a little bit Facebook-y if when we delete our accounts, you still keep a record of everything we've done here, and it's still here for the world to see?

Thanks Graeme. Do any other countries have laws like this?

I don't mind admitting that?

But not communicates, right?

It isn't illegal to discuss the election with a friend in person? Or on the phone? Or by email? Or to email a number of friends? Or to DM on twitter? At what point does a message become a broadcast?

What?

In UK, btw, TV and radio are proscribed from political coverage on election day, not so press

As they do in all the countries that don't have such laws, or where such laws are forbidden?

And in Australia, I can't say I find the sight of voters having to run a gauntlet of party hench-things handing out "how to vote" cards would enhance my sense of democratic gravitas.

I seriously doubt that, but it's a popular argument. There is a wide gap between not allowing the?

Yes.

Indeed, the media release is titled "Media Activity on Election Day".

In the other country I vote in it's the second Sunday of September. Recently they've changed it to every four years instead of every three.

Interesting question! But it'll be coming down tomorrow.

It doesn't make any sense and seems to come from a bogus Twitter account.

OTOH, I wouldn't be too surprised to?

Can you retweet someone's tweets on election day? Who gets in trouble if you do?
Can you link to a blog? What about a comment? etcetc.

I voted this morning from Australia, and if I wasn't already loosely following the election in NZ I don't think I'd have realised there was one, except that the electoral commission (knowing where I lived from me having pro-actively updated the?

Except you can vote early and on the way to the voting booth you can still be advertised at/influenced!

https://www.facebook.com/IvoteNZ/posts/248098428578290

So she is?

Yeah, but somehow she doesn't feel the same ethical obligation as myself to rank the alternatives.

Good luck with that one... I remember the contortions of trying to get an 'unauthorised' pizza into the count – we?

Labour policy isn't it?

The ProgCons in the 1993 Canada elections come to mind.

But you have to register every year (no reminders) and have to use the ballot papers sent, which typically arrive by mail a week before election day, giving you very little time to get them back. The?

They are routinely ignored: for example, when a PM (Federal) or Premier (Provincial) is replaced by someone new who wants to "refresh their mandate", or an incumbent is simply frustrated by their Opposition and?

Apropos of nothing, has anyone seen Jacinda Ardern's billboard on Bond Street (Kingsland)? It's been graffitied – with lots of little yellow love-hearts.

Surely, if you wanted to call a snap election under such rules.... you'd just call for a confidence vote?

I thought the Green Party took my aussie postal address from the electoral roll. I can't think how else they'd?

Fair enough. Facebook's a mystery to me.

But is it reasonable to expect people to disable comments that have no connection to?

was it something you said on one of Emma's posts?

Are overseas mailing addresses *on* the electoral role? Genuine question. Wouldn't think they'd bother with me since people who move long-term to America are probably not on their list of likely voters, but I had no?

Where's Privacy Settings? :-)

ETA: Found it, it's a menu item off the unnamed inverted triangle next to Home. So all I?

sounds more appealing already

No, and they don't expect you to; the disabling comments thing is aimed at political pages. I think people are taking the advisory way out of context.

It's all the winkling, probably.

I got mine tonight. Hung up after I worked out what it was. If I want to listen to a recorded message I'll call?

The flavour of choice this time around.

That makes sense – do it at the bottom of the Mt Eden crater.

Brian Rudman once wrote of John Howard addressing a personalised letter in Chinese, to a?

It is a nice touch on their part I guess.

From casual conversations at?

There's a Keynes vs Hayek musical interlude in there somewhere.

'was finding it hilarious every time tonight Key in?

In a practical sense, perhaps, but the EC's earlier advisory, in May, was similarly blunt.

? It is an offence, at any time?

I'm not sure how it seems from afar but this government has been specifically clueless on that front – more of the same tired neoliberal magic beans and wishing and hoping that Bill English and chums brought us in the 1990s. Much like Cameron's UK, only?

It may be a breach, but would the EC really pursue an individual for, to use the phrase at hand, 'being a dick?'

And just in case they do, who's responsible?

Everytime a citzen says 'Pity we don?t have more public broadcasting' there is a little troll somewhere that falls down dead

I heard that no alcohol may be served or sold starting tomorrow Friday at 6pm until doors close at 7pm Saturday. Also, all telcos are shutting down their networks to prevent communication that might influence?

DoubleClick, aka Google Ad Services.

Money :) I'm not sure if PAS is good value for their advertising buck though. I hope Russell is screwing them anyway.

http://youtu.be/8AjgWyxJAGQ

?Long term memory, the enemy of popular politics.? ? Todd Ross, my Green candidate in Mangere. Although we don?t have to remember much for this video to ring entirely true. Caravan park at 2:18 is my neighbourhood, and it remained til the late 2000s, when?

In a leaders' debate context, I've?

If the view from my small corner of Beijing counts as afar, then that's exactly how it seems.

And because somebody mentioned something about Goff: When watching video of John Key bellowing?

Yeah, just like if I say on?

(It actually worries me that Hughes doesn't know?

The variety of interpretations of spending rules over the last two terms suggests that we still don't have solid enough rules about what counts to cope with the varying ethical levels of our parliamentarians and parties.

I should suspect so, if it was made by a candidate at an election. Certainly I wouldn?t say it.

And I should say that when?

You'd be better off wearing a t-shirt saying: "I'm a Tool"

And finally we have an Electoral Commission that really seems to be losing the plot a bit. Apparently (this just in from?

Quite.

The EC is feeling its way and it needs to rethink the way?

Sure -?

*unfortunate connotations not notwithstanding.

so: I continue to hope that ANZers will come to their senses and boot the bastards out.

And frankly, Hebe, all the "underground music and arts" didnt make?

be it so

I have only inarticulate growling noises to describe the level of inappropriateness involved there.

if speed is the only consideration (rather than say fairness), they may well be correct