Posts by Kevin McCready
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oh, and I forgot to add, that a book of numbered ballot papers goes missing too for a while. So instead of 9 issuing officers there may only be 8 issuing in the Voting Place. Dead easy for corrupt Voting Place Manager to arrange.
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Nice that Tussock is so trusting.
30% of enrolled voters don't vote! You and I could think of many ways to vote for them.
How come I also saw a women in a van with the same group of people at more than one voting place?
Also check the Electoral Act 1933 as to what happens when more than one vote is discovered as being issued to the same elector once the rolls are consolidated into a master roll!!
Why is it that the file of recently deceased people supplied by the Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages under s92 is not merged into the rolls until after the vote is declared and is not available for scrutineers? Or am I wrong on this one?
How come there was a missing "Issuing Stamp" at one Voting Place I scrutineered at? What would happen if a roll (there are more than 10 of them at busy Voting Places) goes missing for an hour or two? It is naive in the extreme to imagine that of the 2500 (?) Voting Places in NZ there is not one who will try it on.
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You forgot the Takeaway Special Votes (yes that's what they are called).
An Agent purporting to represent a voter (who cannot attend the Voting Place and is not recently dead) picks up a ballot paper and takes it away.
It works like this. The Issuing Officer stamps the ballot with their Issuing Stamp (I saw a Voting Place Manager borrow someone else's stamp to do this) and places it in a sealed envelope together with another envelope into which the completed ballot will be placed.
The Agent declares they won't interfer in the vote and only act as assistant if needed.
The Agent returns the completed sealed ballot to the Voting Place. There were quite a few of these in one Voting Place I was at. I witnessed an Agent take a very long time with the help of two officials to find her 'mother' on the roll. Finally the Agent said "Yes, that will be it."
A scrutineer also saw this exchange: Agent returns with envelope and says to Voting Place Manager: "I think we forgot to put the ballot paper in." Voting Place Manager "No worries, let's open it and see". They open it, fiddle around with the papers and seal it up again with cellotape.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to James George,
agreed. I tackled Patrick Gower about it with a few campaining tweets about him and he blocked me. What got me started was this:
http://pantograph-punch.com/asking-the-right-questions-patrick-gower/
wherein he says what it's like to be political 'journo''journo' @patrickgowernz says no time for truth. Thinks journo job is be hard on both sides.
"the scrutiny of what I need." Need for what - entertainment, ratings, killer soundbite?????
"good cast of characters for a drama" . I rest my case. People like this @patrickgowernz determine shape of NZ. -
Kerning
When I had Top Secret clearance I knew about analysis on the kerning on docs. Thus every page from every printer from every user at every time on any document, number of revisions etc etc. The microchanges in the kerning were placed by the software to show all this data. Has anyone done this for the Key documents released? Who printed and at what time and from whose logon? -
Jason Ede is Kathryn Ryan's producer.
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Love the metaphor and its accuracy. Wish I could spend the time to respond in kind with the following:
Some, not all, swinging voters I know are naive, so believe "they are all the same". Therefore they believe the attack on Key is unfair and have harded again in their waning support for him.
Isn't it a maxim that negative campaigning puts off the politically blind. And it's them we need to vote these psycopaths out. Ooops I just got negative again.
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My knowledge of ferro boats was that some were built well and others weren't. But I too would be interested in their longevity, the factors eating them away (concrete cancer whereby the reo rusts inside and expands before breaking?) and maintenance issues. PS Russell Brown, are you a sailor, boat owner?
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Thanks Emma, Great post. I'm not sure Secular Education Network (http://religioninschools.co.nz/) is as hardline as you think. I think religious indoctrination is child abuse. To put BS into a child's mind is wrong. I was physically and mentally abused by catholics as a child. I look forward to a society where the use of fear and religious indoctrination as a parenting/instructional tool is outlawed.
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It's not the first time this has happened to Lisa. She needs to set the rules then terminate the interview if people break them.