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23rd September 2014, 14:26 | #122 |
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Well you could argue that they paid with their integrity.
I dunno actually, I'm just sensationalizing it.
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23rd September 2014, 15:31 | #124 |
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23rd September 2014, 16:27 | #125 |
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That's the new status quo.
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I also think there needs to more in workplaces & universities & winz offices about the election and how and when to vote. Winston is definitely better in opposition, but if I had a choice I would rather him not there at all. And you have to assume that is why the government want to talk with him. Better to have him on your side than against you. And yes national will form a coalition with the other parties to keep them happy (playing the long game for the next election), but they have a lot less power to influence. Although I guess that is a good thing. A <1% party shouldnt be able to ransom the leading party. Im interested in online voting, and the security of it. Imagine if you had it this time, with Kim Dotcom there. I could imagine it would have created a lot of interest in hacking groups to try and get into the system. |
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You guys are missing the point. You can make voting compulsory if you want, but being enrolled is already compulsory. The first hurdle hasn't even been crossed yet. Look at Spink's links. Those stats aren't people who voted - they're people who couldn't even be fucked abiding by their legal requirement to enrol.
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23rd September 2014, 17:00 | #129 | |
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23rd September 2014, 17:04 | #130 |
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How do you mean?
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23rd September 2014, 17:07 | #132 |
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What do you as a country even do if 20, 30, 55% of the country votes no confidence in that theoretical situation where it is an option?
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23rd September 2014, 17:08 | #133 | |
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Can you think of a time they have done so in the past?
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23rd September 2014, 17:17 | #134 | |
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The question is, do you want the No Confidence option as a statistical means of separating the Can't Be Fuckeds from the Genuinely Don't Believe In Any Of The Parties? Or do you want it to be more meaning, ie No Confidence reaches a certain threshold and we go back to square one and have another election?
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23rd September 2014, 17:20 | #135 |
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There are sensible but dogmatically lefty voters who wouldn't vote for National because they're dogmatically lefty, but they wouldn't vote for LabourGreenWinstonInternana because they're sensible. There's nowhere for their vote to go, so I guess a lot of them didn't vote.
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23rd September 2014, 17:21 | #136 |
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I feel better just assuming they're mostly can't be fuckeds and not wasting the money on analysing it.
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23rd September 2014, 17:46 | #137 | |
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23rd September 2014, 18:33 | #138 |
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The majority of the right voted that way because they believed myths like NZ isn't rich, then there is the vanishingly small minority of voters on the right who actually benefit from National being in power by virtue of their economic position.
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23rd September 2014, 18:37 | #139 | |
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It's not so much that people thought they'd benefit from National remaining in power; it's that they thought they would be HURT by LabourGreenWinstonInternana taking power.
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23rd September 2014, 18:40 | #140 | |
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23rd September 2014, 19:09 | #142 |
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Lightspeed you truly are fucking delusional.
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23rd September 2014, 19:16 | #143 |
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Don't feed the troll.
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23rd September 2014, 19:33 | #144 |
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I voted Green but if they didn't exist I wouldn't have voted Labour. That's pretty fucked.
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23rd September 2014, 20:06 | #145 |
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I think the situation was the same as in 2002 - apparently a lot of voters then saw that Labour was going to win, so there was no point in them voting as it wouldn't change anything.
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23rd September 2014, 20:09 | #146 |
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The converse also holds true though - "oh, my team looks like it's going to win easy, I don't need to go out and vote"
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23rd September 2014, 22:55 | #147 |
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24th September 2014, 15:14 | #149 |
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Lightspeed's posts now word filter to
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24th September 2014, 15:21 | #150 |
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Shit and jizz, eh?
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24th September 2014, 15:25 | #151 | |
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24th September 2014, 15:27 | #152 |
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I tend to think dialectically, if I think I'm right, I've made a mistake somewhere.
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24th September 2014, 15:30 | #153 | |
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24th September 2014, 15:35 | #154 |
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And yet, my sense is I'm the one considered at fault for threads turning to shit.
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24th September 2014, 15:43 | #155 | |
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24th September 2014, 15:45 | #156 |
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For each general election since 1957 the voter-turn out percentage has dropped on-average 0.75% each election.
The net trend over the last 100 years is 0.26%, so that is a significant acceleration. People have commented that this year was the 3rd lowest turnout in the last 100 years. That little bon mot treats 1978 as the lowest turn-out year with 69.2%. However in the next general election over 361,000 names were removed from the electoral roll as duplicates; Allowing for that, 1978 becomes 79.9%, making the last three elections the lowest turn-out in the last 100 years at 74.2% (2011), 76.5% (this year) and 78.7% (2008) That said, the lowest voter turn-out since records began is 60.6%, in 1884. 30.2% of the eligible population - over 1 million people - either didn't vote or didn't enroll. Greatest percentage of seats held by any party was 69.07% in 1990 with National. Labour's highest was 1935 & 1938 each with 66.25% No real point to this rambling collection of facts other than damn, makes you think.
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24th September 2014, 19:52 | #158 |
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isle show you how to spell that correctly if you like.
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24th September 2014, 19:54 | #159 | |
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