I hear that plastic bags are soon to be banned? How will that affect you? I've already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don't know what the alternative will be yet. If they replace plastic rubber bags with those thick paper ones what is to stop people hiding a plastic bag inside of it? How will it be policed? Will...
I think simply checking all candidates you support would achieve the ends we want. It's super simple to understand, it doesn't bias the listing order like STV does (people are likely to rank candidates in order of appearance), it's easier to explain the counting and counting can be done manually without a fuss without performing complex algorithms.
Just count the ticks. The person with the most ticks wins. Simple as that. In the case of party votes they get seats according to the number of ticks they got.
Candidates are ordered randomly to try to prevent to bias of selecting the candidates at the top.
I understand that but humans will always bias from top to bottom when ranking and whoever gets the lucky draw to be near the top will get a higher ranking.
I’m not sure your system works. If like 3 parties, I get 3 votes. If you only like 1 party, you get 1 vote?
yes. All candidates (or parties) are listed. You check as many as you want. If you are indifferent you can check none or all. At the end of the day all the checkmarks are counted and whoever gets the most wins. In the case of party votes all votes for all parties are tallied and their seats are apportioned accordingly.
It seems like some people get more votes than others, which most people would say isn’t fair.
No everybody gets the same number of votes. You can use all or none or some of your votes. Just tick the candidates you like. Tick all the ones you like. Don't tick the ones you don't like. Super simple.
Print them randomly per voting paper. Not as hard as it sounds in this day and age.
No I think that would be very hard even in this day and age. It's not like these are printed on a printer or anything, they come off of a printing press.
There is no way this would be accepted by the general public.
Because you are giving a side a bigger share of seats if they have more parties.
Only if they get the votes.
Your system is called Approval voting and is generally only used for voting individual candidates, not for parties under an MMP like system because of hte potential for abuse.
it would work even better for parties.
One party (say, Labour) registers 100 new parties and lists their candidates across them, asking Labout voters to vote for all of their subsidiary parties. Suddenly Labour voters get 100 votes, and National voters get 1.
Are you talking about candidates? The candidate with the most votes would win. Only one candidate would win.
But of course National sees what’s happening and they register 1,000 parties! Now it swings back the other way, voting ballots have 20 pages to list all the parties. and everyone stops bothering with voting.
I am not, and I’m not sure how you got that impression.
I got that impression because you used the word candidate.
It would not, because of the abuse I outlined in my previous reply
You outlined a scenario where there would be an infinite number of seats in the parliament. It's a set number and seats are divided according to votes.
"The arguments referencing the risk of homosexuality and abortion may well be welcome and normal within the context of [his] private life and views. However they are disgraceful when used in the present context. The balance of [the teacher's] arguments are borne from unrealistic hysteria and we need not go into them further."...
I think it will fix a tax hole that encourages investing in non-productive assets, which will improve our economy by increasing investment into productive assets.
Has it done this in other countries when it was introduced?
Have a think about this - given that experts in the field all believe that we should have a CGT, what do you know that they don’t?
This is economics. For every "expert" there is an equal and opposite "expert". What do you know that the opposing experts don't?
Outlawing murder didn’t fix all our societal woes, but that’s doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.
it did fix some of our societal laws. This was demonstrated in places where it was outlawed.
I think it will fix a tax hole that encourages investing in non-productive assets, which will improve our economy by increasing investment into productive assets.
What do you mean by " investing in non productive assets"? Can you give some examples?
So, I see r/NZ is back. That's it? What an anemic protest. I guess I'm honestly surprised more people don't care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this....
I think you will see more growth once the third party apps are shut down. After that spike you'll probably see a steady rise as people get banned or harassed or whatever.
Greens release tax calculator showing if Kiwis will be better off or have to pay more under new policy (www.newshub.co.nz)
https://www.greens.org.nz/taxcalculator
How will the July 1st plastic bag ban affect you?
I hear that plastic bags are soon to be banned? How will that affect you? I've already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don't know what the alternative will be yet. If they replace plastic rubber bags with those thick paper ones what is to stop people hiding a plastic bag inside of it? How will it be policed? Will...
Aotearoa daily kōrero 22/6/2023
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Future for Local Government review: What you need to know (www.rnz.co.nz)
This is a summary of the Future for Local Government report - He piki tūranga, he piki kōtuku....
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Poll shows bounce back for Labour, bad news for Christopher Luxon and NZ First (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Opposition parties accused of racism over health equity claims - RNZ (www.rnz.co.nz)
Luxon again with the “look, what I really mean is…”
Teacher struck off after refusing to use student's pronouns (www.1news.co.nz)
"The arguments referencing the risk of homosexuality and abortion may well be welcome and normal within the context of [his] private life and views. However they are disgraceful when used in the present context. The balance of [the teacher's] arguments are borne from unrealistic hysteria and we need not go into them further."...
Chlöe Swarbrick blames Labour for NZ's gang problems, says they lacked 'courage' to implement advice they commissioned (www.newshub.co.nz)
Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations (www.nzherald.co.nz)
So that's it r/newzealand?
So, I see r/NZ is back. That's it? What an anemic protest. I guess I'm honestly surprised more people don't care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this....