Posts by Phil Lyth
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if it's from the 1972 election
Quite probably. That was Dreadon's first time up as a candidate and the last election that Marshall contested.
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Telecommunications surveys over the phone. Going viral. Yesterday I grumbled about Colmar Brunton. Digipoll rang just now! Went away when I told them our policy is to require the callers cellphone number before proceeeding.
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Digipoll
And the rest, Colmar Brunton seem to have had me on high rotate over the last three months even though I tell them 'No thanks' every time they call with their '10 minute' telco survey.
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Russ, did the PDF make it through to you (tried from two addresses), or could it have been trpped in spamfilter hell?
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I'd love to know how the referendum $9m was spent.
I asked the Chief Electoral Office under the OIA and on 13 July got this (RB, can I add a PDF of the reply?) in round fgures
Printing and delivery of ballot papers (outward) $1.8M
* Budgeted postage for return of ballots $1.0M
* Processing of returned ballots $2.7M
Leaflet mail drop $267K
TV/radio promotion - $518K for Electoral Enrolment Centre, $233K for Chief Electoral Office
Online media promotion - EEC $151K, CEO $47K
'Other' EEC $727K, CEO $1.3M (obviously I didn't ask the right questions to dig into these amounts.* they estimated an 80% response rate for budgetting, so the 56% actual response rate suggests they would have spent $1M or so under budget.
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Open Government Bar Camp
They've got the House Full sign us: dang, wish I'd heard about it sooner, would have been in boots and all. Must ask Glen and Nat how Official Information / Ombudsmen fit with their project, with it is central or just tangentially relevant.
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Here at the New Zealand Kennel Club we approve of people like Shay.
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I'm with whoever said that we need some sort of structure that defines a family home and a secondary residence
Trevor has beaten me to the post and he has posted the form used by Parliamentary Services to determine an MP's 'Primary Place of Residence.'
(Not used for Ministers that I know of)
The form has been in use for at least three elections that I know of, and has to be signed off by ParlServ and the Speaker before a non-Minister MP can claim a Wellington Accommodation Allowance.
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peaceful and orderly change of government following a free, fair and credible election
Amen.
The arguments continue about the arguments used in the campaign and the things done, whether they were above board. And the continuing arguments are part of free speech. But amen, a free and fair election.
So people, mark your calendar for a Saturday in late 2011 to spend time as a scrutineer for the party of your choice.
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Warning <geek>
Ian is very very close but not quite 100%
Each ballot paper has a consecutive number repeated on the foil/butt. Both numbers are covered with a black sticker. Your personal page and line number is recorded on the foil. (To find out what you had voted I would have to undo countless black stickers to try and find yours.)
Weeks after the election every sticker is removed by officials.
Every Roll is inspected to make sure that each person has voted only once. If duplicated then there is a knock on doors to find out who if any voted more than once.For the record:
- The stickers are on the ballot paper only
- The check for dual votes is not 'weeks after', but in the official count which starts on the 10th day after polling
- 'Every sticker' is not removedRather if for arguments sake the check of the rolls shows Ian's details on the stub for a voting paper at one of the six polling booths at Blenheim Central School, and also at the polling booth at Tuamarina, then only the voting papers from Tuamarina and the one relevant booth at Blenheim Central are opened up.
Only those batches of votes have the stickers lifted. And IIRC, the practice is that the ballot is covered with a sheet of paper while a sticker is lifted and replaced, to preserve secrecy.
Yes, dual voting is taken seriously. 58 cases were referred to the Police after November 2008 and there was one prosecution.
See s150(15), s167(3), s176(2) of the Electoral Act