Got My Voting Pack

[Zardnaar]

Election here in NZ next month and got my voting pack in the mail. Thought I would share it with CFC.

Basically 3 things in it. Double sided but there's a list of candidates in my Electorate, a pamphlet on the referendum and a how to vote pamphlet.

There's also an easy vote card that's perforated you just rip it out and take it to the polling place.

The referendum is on legalizing Marijuana and euthenasia. Non binding.


On election day just take the card with you and in and out maybe 5 minutes.

Election is on a Saturday iirc. Nearest polling place is about 5 minutes walk away at a local school.

We get two votes. One for the party you like and one for the Electorate MP. Party vote is proportional and determines who gets to form the next Government.

 

[amadeus]

I knew a guy that lived in Dunedin for a while, said it was a nice place. I’m on a quick break now so I can’t elaborate but I think that New Zealand is just about the right size for a well-run political entity.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Do they have to put up a deposit OR can anyone enter themselves as a loony candidate, in Kiwi land?

They increased the deposit in the UK and diminished the fun of having alternative candidates.

 

[Zardnaar]

Do they have to put up a deposit OR can anyone enter themselves as a loony candidate, in Kiwi land?

They increased the deposit in the UK and diminished the fun of having alternative candidates.

I think you have to pay and have 500 members.

We have a few loons who run as a joke.

Then there's a few that think they're serious but most people think they're loons.

 

[Patine]

Election here in NZ next month and got my voting pack in the mail. Thought I would share it with CFC.

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Basically 3 things in it. Double sided but there's a list of candidates in my Electorate, a pamphlet on the referendum and a how to vote pamphlet.

There's also an easy vote card that's perforated you just rip it out and take it to the polling place.

The referendum is on legalizing Marijuana and euthenasia. Non binding.


On election day just take the card with you and in and out maybe 5 minutes.

Election is on a Saturday iirc. Nearest polling place is about 5 minutes walk away at a local school.

We get two votes. One for the party you like and one for the Electorate MP. Party vote is proportional and determines who gets to form the next Government.

That would probably be a more worthwhile election to vote in than the one in the United States. And, unlike the one in the United States, it wouldn't make a voter with any conscious or ethics, or concern for the good or advancement of their country inherently, automatically, and universally feel morally tainted after voting.

 

[Patine]

I think you have to pay and have 500 members.

We have a few loons who run as a joke.

Then there's a few that think they're serious but most people think they're loons.

The Civilian Party, the McGillicuddy Serious Party, and the Bill and Ben Party are all deliberate parody parties in New Zealand, like the Official Looney Raving Monster Party and Lord Buckethead in the UK, Die Partei and Berg Uberpartei in Germany, the Rhinoseros Party in Canada, "Darth Vader," in Ukraine, the Monarchist Party in Estonia, and Vermin Supreme and "General Zod," in the United States.

 

[Zardnaar]

The Civilian Party, the McGillicuddy Serious Party, and the Bill and Ben Party are all deliberate parody parties in New Zealand, like the Official Looney Raving Monster Party and Lord Buckethead in the UK, Die Partei and Berg Uberpartei in Germany, the Rhinoseros Party in Canada, "Darth Vader," in Ukraine, the Monarchist Party in Estonia, and Vermin Supreme and "General Zod," in the United States.

Mcgillicuddy Serious party now defunct. I remember their ads from the 90s funny as lol.

Bill and Ben were radio personality who did it for a laugh.

 

[Kyriakos]

I keep reading "voting" as "vomiting".
Not really strange, tbh.

 

[Zkribbler]

I'm still waiting for my ballot, which I believe will be mailed out the first part of October.

Of course, I'll do a one-day turnaround. Cali's deadline is a function of the postmark. Not that my vote is that critical. I'm from the bluest part of the bluest city of the bluest state. We all know who my elector will be voting for.

 

[Patine]

I'm still waiting for my ballot, which I believe will be mailed out the first part of October.

Of course, I'll do a one-day turnaround. Cali's deadline is a function of the postmark. Not that my vote is that critical. I'm from the bluest part of the bluest city of the bluest state. We all know who my elector will be voting for.

And then you can choose between the two corrupt, criminal, traitorious, sell-out, apathetic, morally-bankrupt monsters, or "waste your vote," just like your nation's rigged and corrupt electoral system with no true choice for the voters, and where one of the same two failed, treasonous, corrupt, organized criminal, war criminal, and violative of their citizens' basic rights political always wins, because the deck is stacked against all opposition, and the chances of both Duopoly parties losing the same election is about as likely as United Russia losing an election in Russia, or ZANU-PF losing an election in Zimbabwe - and for similar reasons - unless a majority of U.S. citizens actually understood and saw this cheating of their electoral rights and the full high crimes committed by their government on a bipartisan basis all the time - and then maybe they could form a grassroots group to bring the criminal, corrupt, and treasonous Duopoly in the same election. If only that many Americans walked the walked, instead of just talking a good talk, about caring about and showing loyalty to their nation as a whole and it's betterment and advancement (and NOT just one of two organized crime cartels posing as political parties).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The Civilian Party, the McGillicuddy Serious Party, and the Bill and Ben Party are all deliberate parody parties in New Zealand, like the Official Looney Raving Monster Party and Lord Buckethead in the UK, Die Partei and Berg Uberpartei in Germany, the Rhinoseros Party in Canada, "Darth Vader," in Ukraine, the Monarchist Party in Estonia, and Vermin Supreme and "General Zod," in the United States.

I don't remember what year or in which riding (I think it was somewhere in Ontario), the Rhinoceros Party candidate did not come in last. In fact, for part of the night he looked to be in real contention, and he started to panic ("OMG, what if I WIN this thing? I'm not supposed to win!").

But as more polling stations reported in, he fell to a comfortable second-last place (or so I recall; this happened a long time ago).

I still can't believe that the Wexit Party thinks they're going to be any more credible as the Maverick Party. They should just call it Michelle Rempel's Latest Excuse To Shoot Off Her Big Mouth Party, and be done with it.

 

[Patine]

I don't remember what year or in which riding (I think it was somewhere in Ontario), the Rhinoceros Party candidate did not come in last. In fact, for part of the night he looked to be in real contention, and he started to panic ("OMG, what if I WIN this thing? I'm not supposed to win!").

But as more polling stations reported in, he fell to a comfortable second-last place (or so I recall; this happened a long time ago).

I still can't believe that the Wexit Party thinks they're going to be any more credible as the Maverick Party. They should just call it Michelle Rempel's Latest Excuse To Shoot Off Her Big Mouth Party, and be done with it.

Was it 1988, when they found a candidate whose name also happened to be John Turner to run against the then-Liberal leader (who recently passed away) in his own constituency, relying on the tactic of name confusion?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Was it 1988, when they found a candidate whose name also happened to be John Turner to run against the then-Liberal leader (who recently passed away) in his own constituency, relying on the tactic of name confusion?

If he ran for the Rhinoceros Party?

I honestly don't remember. I just recall reading about a Rhinoceros Party candidate who actually had a real shot at winning his riding and when interviewed after, he admitted that he felt panicky since he didn't expect it, and it was never intended that he should actually win.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think the UK wins the joke party award.

Monster Raving Loony Party.

 

[Patine]

I think the UK wins the joke party award.

Monster Raving Loony Party.

Jack Brazil, one of the candidates listed in your voting pack photo above, sounds like the same of a jungle-exploring Pulp hero.