You've got to wonder if one way to speed up this post-election waiting time is that every electorate where the candidate voting margin is less than 100 votes automatically gets recounted unless the candidate who came second advises the Electoral Commission not to within 24 hours of the Special Votes being counted. Still have it available for a candidate to ask for a recount if the margin is more than 100 votes but they have only 24 hours and not 4-5 days to request a recount and increase the fee required for a recount.
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and it shouldn't take 3 weeks to count special votes, surely? That has actually been the big hold up in all of this.
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I get trying to get as many people as possible to vote.
Election day registration seems to be a huge problem with the results being delayed.
Sorry if you haven't bothered to register until Election day bad luck.
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They don't just spend that time counting Special Votes but also checking through to make sure no one has voted twice, that the votes were correctly recorded and checking the details of those who enrolled on Election Day. Apparently, counting the special votes is one of the least time consuming things they do after the Election has been held.
With Winston ... the average is 48
Without Winston ... the average is 21
So essentially the election result wasn't over until November 3rd then, people getting hung up on polling day being October 14th.
Generally this would be because the results were in line with traditionally allied parties with mostly similar views ie Greens/Labour or National/ACT versus a tighter 'king' making close election where either block could potentially govern. If a deal can get done this week it would be a relatively quick negotiation - and that would mainly be because one side of the political spectrum has completely ruled him out this election.
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Unfortunately one side didn't rule him out.
"Anything I have to agree to be PM"
It seems that Hipkins promise that there wouldn’t be a wealth or capital gains tax while he was leader was short lived… until he agreed to put it back on the table in order to keep the leader’s role for the vote last week.
Makes you also wonder what Luxon, Winnie and Seymour are prepared to compromise on to form a government. Overseas buyers tax, regional funds or Treaty referendums?
Makes you also wonder what Luxon, Winnie and Seymour are prepared to compromise on to form a government. Overseas buyers tax, regional funds or Treaty referendums?
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Sounds like the overseas buyers tax will be taken away by NZFirst and ACT which will be a good out for National. What affect that will have on the level of tax cuts or changes will be interesting. Also sounds like NZFirst and ACT are on a similar page when it comes to the Treaty. There won't be a referendum but expect a 'reset' according to Shane Jones
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Seems Hipkins was right about one thing.These guys will run rings around Luxon.
Finally getting to meet in person today in Auckland after Winnie was a no show in Wellington yesterday.
Also Act & NZF ganging up which in itself is weird.
Some how.... this doesn't feel me with a lot of confidence.
Peters departs milestone meeting; Seymour calls it short but 'wonderful'
The milestone meeting has happened, but talks could still carry on for days.
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Winston looks happy, seymour not as much.Some how.... this doesn't feel me with a lot of confidence.
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Peters departs milestone meeting; Seymour calls it short but 'wonderful'
The milestone meeting has happened, but talks could still carry on for days.www.nzherald.co.nz
You have to wonder what election promise Luxon had to give up for Winston to allow him to sit at the top of the table.Some how.... this doesn't feel me with a lot of confidence.
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Peters departs milestone meeting; Seymour calls it short but 'wonderful'
The milestone meeting has happened, but talks could still carry on for days.
Seymour looks like a man whose wife has just convinced him to have a threesome with her and a guy from the pub
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Seymour looks like a guy that can't get a wife tbh...
Or just Googled what his wife meant when she called him her cuckold.
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The election has been a shambles. Seems many special votes are never checked, many could have been fraudulent and it may have changed the makeup of the whole government. Wow:
In 2020, the Jacinda Ardern-led Government enacted election-day enrolment. Now, on election day, with no proof of ID or address, anyone can sign a declaration, enrol, and vote.
It is impossible to check the eligibility of electors whose names and addresses are secret until after they have voted.
There are over a quarter of a million adults in New Zealand who are not eligible to vote: visa-holders, tourists, foreign students and overstayers among them. Only citizens and permanent residents may vote, and only for the electorate where they live.
It is likely that National candidates in Nelson, Te Atatū and Mt Albert who narrowly lost after the special vote count won more valid votes. It is likely that Peeni Henare and Kelvin Davis really won Tamaki Mākaurau and Te Tai Tokerau.
There is no other country that lets people with no ID enrol and vote on election day. We are the only country where 20.9 per cent of the total votes cast are special votes.
No one knows how many of the 603,257 special votes are fraudulent.
The shift of a handful of votes could change the election result. The Green Party received one-third of their votes from specials, which boosted the number of Green MPs. The special votes decreased National’s MP count by two. Special votes enabled Te Pāti Māori to win two electorates. It is possible that if only valid ballots were counted, National and Act together won the election.
We need to know whether election-day enrolment is empowering participation in democracy, or whether election-day enrolment is destroying the integrity of our elections.
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