Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Phil Lyth,
Sadly Judicial Decisions Online seems to no longer provide what it should. The judge has released a decision which I would be interested to see.
JDO has never been that quick. Least of all for a decision apparently released on a weekend.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Poverty IS having no money.
Pennilessness is the state of having no money.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to nzlemming,
Bugger.
This had to happen for my scenario to come true. Now for the next step.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to BenWilson,
I thought you must have too, but you didn't.
Turns out I did. Only it was in the other thread!
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to BenWilson,
Why not?
I thought I already said, but ... because the returning officer will have been really really careful the first time around.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Richard Aston,
So working with your scenario, ie Judicial recount = Bennet In then Labour goes for a Electoral Petition , what are the chances Bennet would lose?
I think rather unlikely, but mostly because I don’t think the judicial recount will go Bennett's way. If it doesn’t, and she still tries an election petition, she wouldn’t then be out if she lost the petition.
An election petition based on vote counting.eligibility would be a crap-shoot. No way of knowing for anyone without a great deal more information than I have.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
How is it legal? You would have thought that gambling on (alleged) inside information would contravene gaming law, securities law or both.
They have some sort of an exemption from the Securities Commission.
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Legal Beagle: Election #11: Notings, in reply to Lilith __,
typo at # 2., I think you mean “or” not “of”.
fixed.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
In that case, Carmel is out and while National doesn’t gain a seat
As with a by-election, there might be a window in which Bennett could resign as a list MP before being formally elected as the local member.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Judging with what has happened in the past in New Zealand with MMP I feel dropping the threshold is a goer but do other countries who use similar systems feel it is necessary?
It's pretty variable.
Germany's MMP system has 5% or three electorates (but ~600 members of their lower House).
Poland has 5%, or 8% for coalitions.
Israel has 2%.
Portugal, Finland, Macedonia, South Africa and the Netherlands don't have a threshold at all (although the Netherlands won't allow a party's first seat to be a remainder seat, so it would be kinda like us having a threshold of 1/120 of the vote). Same with Scotland and Wales, although these systems (and I think Macedonia as well, and I don't rule out some of the others) have regional lists, which can mean that the effective threshold is slightly higher than you might think it would be.