I wheeled out the fax to vote last night- haven't sent a fax for oh um three years I guess, and couldn't work out how. Eventually scanned and faxed it from the puter, from my living room in France.

And I voted Labour... for the first time since 1984! (I never could get the hang of doing the fashionable thing.) Well only for the electorate vote : Auckland Central looked might flip back. Too bad.

(yeah it's taken me two and a half decades to recover from being on Richard Prebble's Labour Electorate Committee way back... permanent minority of two with Margaret Wilson)

It feels like a not-quite-watershed moment for the Greens : over 10% is nice, but should have been better to really eat up the deliquescent Labour vote and look at winning some electorates next time.