Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: The Message, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I think in Seymourland both property owners would square off in civil court on the extent to which the apartment block was impairing others property-rights, probably leaving neither satisfied but their lawyers enriched.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
one sequentially after the other
How many digits? Leading zeros? (I haven't had my ballot papers yet so can't look)
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
The Wellington Council Elections are STV and get reported like this.
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Hard News: The Message, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I rather wish “they” (whoever they are) would, because coronations tend to lead to more platitudes than serious policy subject to equally serious scrutiny
I don't know how these things work, but can't a National Party member propose that the party starts adopting candidates in local elections according to a defined policy?
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Goff campaigning while being an incumbent MP will annoy the right greatly
John Key seems his usual relaxed self about it - maybe he thinks a National MP might want to do the same at some stage, maybe he'd rather have Goff as mayor than some of the wingnuts on offer?
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Oliver Thompson,
Yes, it’s fairly standard practice for most elections http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0066/latest/DLM6405395.html.
The ballot papers are always traceable in all/most elections and secrecy relies on them being locked away and destroyed after six months, unless there has been some sort of irregularity that results in a court order to unseal them (like a bunch of ballot papers got diverted and voted).
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Presumably the vote counters are paid by the hour or are on a salary, so if the votes take longer to count because many are spoiled, they'll just get overtime or the process will take longer - they won't lose out.
(Do they use a scanning machine that counts correctly filled papers automatically, or is it an entirely manual process?)
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If I put a Weetabix in the envelope and send it back then, as well as feeding the hard working voters, is this a valid vote for the Weetabix flag, or would it be spoiled, even if the cereal isn't.
* Weetabix is a good choice for a new flag, as although people think it's Kiwi, it's actually a UK product made under license.
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Also, life expectancy is strongly correlated with wealth, and Winston isn't poor.
(I'd be interested so see there are any NZ stats on life expectancy crossed by wealth and ethnicity).
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I'm sure iPredict would be happy to run a book on his date of death.