And the winners are
August 24th, 2011 at 10:00 am by David FarrarVote for Change has announced:
Vote for Change today announced the winner of its recent competition that asked New Zealanders to design advertisements for the upcoming referendum on our voting system.
The overall winner was Nick Cross, a Wellington student for his poster entry. Mr Cross will receive $2,500 for attracting the most votes from Vote for Change’s members and supporters, in addition Mr Cross won campaign team’s award of $5,000 for the best entry.
The winning entry and finalists can viewed at www.VoteforChange.org.nz/competitions .
Well done Nick. His winning entry is below.
August 24th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Yup. That’ll do it.
Who doesn’t remember his antics in 1996? Extended horse-trading, long speeches.
Not to mention his later antics.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Very good.
This campaign could be the only occasion when Peters will hate to see his photo in print.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Nice entry. And didn’t require a ton of taxpayers money either. Weird. Every exception proves the rule, eh socialists.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:21 am
And the country held to ransom for 6 weeks, Helen crying on TV, getting fired by every PM he ever worked for.
Concur, not looking for repeat by either him or any other non-entity that only family voted for.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Durhh! They’ve probably just guaranteed NZF getting back into Parliament.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:55 am
It’s easy to not choose him but to retain a fair system. Vote for MMP less WP!
Depends on what change that’s voted for, but FPP gives less choice and an unfair level of power to one party.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Well they let you electorateless hippies in so why not him?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Winston would’ve held the balance of power in 1996 under FPP anyway.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Wasn’t this poster one of the examples that was offered, when the competition was first announced?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:22 am
This is a major weakness of MMP in that it can allow a minor party decide who forms the Government. Peters in 1996 was a disgrace. However in the main the minor party has not been cruical so Peters holding the country to ransom has only occurred once. And FPP can produce a hung parliament in which a centre party can also be cruical. But Peters sets himself up as this swing party. Only that John Key has taken this away saying he will NOT do business with him. Peters has languished in the polls since.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Though it’s not likely to happen this time round, I do wonder what National would do if they did need NZF to hang on to power.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:27 am
http://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/08/vote-for-change-has-become-shallow.html
This was an entertaining post about the farcical Vote for Change crowd.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:43 am
Tumeke just sounds bitter, cynical, infantile and petulant, in other words the standard left wing response. His argument seems to be “terrible getting young people to be creative”. And calling a competition a “bribe” is laughable, as though they would not have participated if they did not believe in the cause and were in it just for the money.
Seriously pathetic.
Vote for change!
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:50 am
I’ll think about it if Vote for Change actually get around to saying what electoral system they want and why they want it.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Have already informed my parents, both in their 80′s, that if they vote Winston they will not see their grandchildren ever again
Who needs KFC?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Mikenmild – I did my bit to elevate the discussion above the stupid hysteria level with my entry. But sadly it appears not to have been favoured by Vote For Change, I’m not sure why…
http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af230/RRM22/rrmposter1.jpg
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
“Have already informed my parents, both in their 80′s, that if they vote Winston they will not see their grandchildren ever again”
LOL
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Winston would’ve held the balance of power in 1996 under FPP anyway.
[DPF: Umm that was MMP]
Umm yes I know, what I’m saying is that even if MMP was defeated in 1993, Winston would still have ended up holding the balance of power in 1996 under an FPP system. The Maori seats would still have been swept by NZF along with Tauranga, and backroom deals with the Alliance could well have seen Whangarei, Bay of Plenty and possibly others added to that tally.
[DPF: Oh yes. Have deleted my previous comment]
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Whatever happened to that cartoon caption contest with the kiwi dragging the pollies up the hill to 2017?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
“This is a major weakness of MMP in that it can allow a minor party decide who forms the Government.”
It can happen under FPP too-it just happens that we never had a minor party win more than two seats post-1935.
With the development of the Maori and Mana parties and their ability to win Maori electorates, unless one major party trounces the other, it’s highly likely a Maori party or alliance would hold the balance of power at most elections under an FPP system.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Supplementary Member seems to be the preffered alternative, and it is the one I would support. That said if we do get change its still only tinkering around the edges. What we really need is a radical change in suffrage and voting rights.
Raise the voting age to 25.
Vote:Restrict voting only to NZ citizens who have been citizens for ten years.
Create an upper house senate with veto power restricted to those over 45.
Make voting a privelege that has to be earned, not an automatic right, with those wanting to vote having to first complete three years of national service either in the military or a civilian equivalent.
Entrench the British monarchy permanently in a written constitution so that we are no longer threatened by vile and soulles republicanism.
Restore and strengthen treason laws with treason an automatic death penalty crime and make financial support for foriegn terrorist groups a treasonable offense.
August 24th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Lee01
I am with you on every point Way to go. Im sick of having the uninformed the illiterate able to decide who runs the country. FFS they can even decide whether to run a bath.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I’d be interested in seeing Lee’s definition of treason.
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Hey, Lee, what about my automatic payments to Hamas? Would that be the hangman or the chair for me?
Anyway, I see under Lee’s rules payments to domestic terrorists is still OK, phew!
What’s Tama Iti’s address?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
How’s the new final solution going Luc? Enough Jews dead for you yet?
Vote:August 24th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
tvb wrote
Dr Brash should’ve done the same thing in 2005 & ruled out Peters. NZ1st only achieved 5.72% of the vote.
John Key has made some pretty gutsy calls – ruling out Peters, naming the election dates months in advance, & promising to continue governing arrangements with ACT and the Maori Party.
I’m sure Mr Key would’ve had many opposing views put to him by seasoned political experts like Hooten et al., but instead he has shown confidence in the electorate’s ability to decide what is right.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 1:38 am
For RRM’s edification:
Vote:There were several reasons for which the Weimar Republic of 1919-33 succumbed to the right-wing extremism of Adolf Hitler: a lack of legitimacy among important sectors of German society, a flawed constitution, and finally an electoral law based upon a very extreme implementation of proportional representation (PR), which guaranteed parliamentary representation to even the smallest of political groups, and in turn produced highly fragmented legislatures in which it was very difficult to form stable coalitions.
http://electionresources.org/de/
August 25th, 2011 at 7:27 am
John Key has made some pretty gutsy calls – ruling out Peters, naming the election dates months in advance, & promising to continue governing arrangements with ACT and the Maori Party.
And prominently promising to continue governing arrangements with United Future.
Vote: