Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Legal Beagle: Referendum '11: counting…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
And do the miscreants get prosecuted (I've never seen such a case reported)?
They do get investigated and prosecuted. Sometimes the dual votes aren't corrupt: often people who advance vote from a resthome, and whose kids pick them up on voting day to vote in person, who may be confused about whether they've voted (or whose kids think they're confused when they say they've already voted!)
I knew the number last election, but can't remember it. Maybe 80-100? Think I'll ask after the official count is completed.
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Oh well Nikki is only 500 ahead with 6000 special votes on Auckland Central to be counted.
6000 special votes cast in Auckland Central - many of which will be from people on the North Shore, or the West, or just about anywhere in Auckland who were going to be in the city, so decided to vote there, rather than in their home electorates.
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Legal Beagle: Election '11: the special votes, in reply to Steve Austin,
The other thing to note of course in the above scenario is Nats + ACT + UF = 61 seats from 122
I'm not sure what scenario you're talking about, but unless it is Katene winning Te Tai Tonga, then the number of seats is 121.
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Legal Beagle: Election '11 -…, in reply to Tinshed,
not necessarily a better one?
Cartainly a more proportional one...
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Sleep is for the sleepy :-)
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Graeme, has there ever been a tie on the night before? (That is, all booths reporting, but with the specials?)
Not that I know of. At least not in a while. Wait for specials. I still a tie, automatic judicial recount. If still a tie "draw lots". But in reality, perhaps not before an election petition to determine whether people should have voted where they did and all sorts of things like that.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Richard Grevers,
They lose one vote by providing a speaker but that would leave them 61-60.
Nope. The Speaker gets to vote, and no longer gets a casting vote: a change introduced to Standing Orders after MMP, now that parties cast party votes in the House.
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And the one time I remember to turn comment on, I have to turn them off :-)
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Realistically, isn’t the Electoral Commission’s advice aimed at parties, candidates, and the news media?
Yes.
Indeed, the media release is titled "Media Activity on Election Day".
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Peter Darlington,
#attemptstodeleteallpreviousposts
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?