Voting
Voting booths on campus to encourage student voters
AUT students will be able to cast their vote on campus in the weeks leading up to the general election.
The AUT student association (AuSM) has teamed up with the Ministry of Justice’s Chief Electoral Office to arrange for temporary voting booths to be available in the three weeks prior to the election.
AuSM president Jan Herman says [...]
Web used to inform voters
John Key has more than 5000 Facebook friends and Helen Clark has 2000. This could be a sign of what is to come in the world of political campaigning.
Finding out who to vote for and why still tends to be time-consuming and confusing to young people.
The Electoral Commission released information on August 11 showing 56 [...]
THE ABCs OF MMP - Voting made easy
The 2008 election is New Zealand’s fifth under the Mixed Member Proportional system, yet barely half of the voting public find our system easy to understand. Louise Blockley looks at how the complexities of our system influence voters and explains some MMP mysteries.
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