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Polity: Government votes not to improve MMP
I'd like to see a preference system. If your party doesn't make the threshold then it gets transfered to another…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review - The Proposals
But it still reduces proportionality. It would have been better to have the threshold for extra seats set lower, e.g.…
Hard News: We are, at last, navigating out of the "meth contamination" debacle
If there were any recourse – any I’m not convinced there would be – I would expect it to be…
Island Life: How to smoke an MP
You're overlooking a manufacturing threshold. In this case, thighs is everything.
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
Ben, you argue that the end justifies the means in that a system that creates inequality between voters, which the…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review: Trusting Voters
There’s an argument that if we got rid of the threshold, we should also adopt a counting system that requires…
Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the no threshold hypothesis
I suspect if there wasn't a threshold more parties would be formed, and therefore more parties represented in parliament.
I…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
Because they are abolishing the electoral seat threshold, it is likely that we will get a less proportional parliament than…
OnPoint: Sneaky brackets
I believe the US adjusts tax thresholds for inflation automatically.
New Zealand, and I suspect most countries, makes long-term fiscal…
Legal Beagle: Up to 11
__Another amendment that has been proposed is to prevent MPs from sub-5% parties ‘coat-tailing’ on an electorate MP, which would…
Legal Beagle: MMP or not MMP
That would be my idea of a constitutional reform, not dropping the threshold to 3% so Winston can sneak back.…
Hard News: Democracy Night
so with no threshold ALCP would have got one seat?
Hard News: Just marketing to the base
the highest marginal tax rates in the land will be faced by those trying to get off the bottom rung.…
Hard News: Don't bother voting
I was just tangentially advocating ditching or minimising the threshold and leaving everything else untouched.
Low or no thresholds are…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review - The Proposals
I have to say I'm not entirely convinced by their reasoning on the threshold. A lot of assertion, no testing…
Legal Beagle: Election 2014: the no threshold counterfactual
Zero threshold places use a first divisor of 1.4 (or higher) but stick with Sainte-Laguë. For 120 seats it's effectively…
Capture: Two Tone
Comparison…
...and I found a button labelled threshold and I thought “WTF?"
Hard News: Metiria's Problem
Which is perhaps one of the reasons the Electoral Commission recommended threshold changes?
Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The (un)certain Scenario
Judging with what has happened in the past in New Zealand with MMP I feel dropping the threshold is a…
OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.)
I certainly feel the current repayment threshold is too low – below minimum wage, really?
Aye. Really. Minimum wage is…
Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the no threshold hypothesis
I don’t agree that a low threshold necessarily increases instability, nor that a high threshold prevents instability, nor that stability…
Cracker: Mix Your Members
So far the only argument I've heard against the lowest practical threshold of 0.8% (unless we raise the number of…
Hard News: Don't bother voting
Ben Wilson wrote:
So I can only conclude that wasted votes are an intended consequence of the current system.
Not…
Legal Beagle: Threshold
In principle, I'd like to see no threshold - if the proportion of people who voted for a party amounts…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #3: The Submission
This is convincing.
I think you could also connect the open list issue with the threshold issue i.e. voters who…