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Presidential Voting still open
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pmThere’s still one month left to vote for your preferred President, in the fictional President of NZ Election.
Tags: pres, RepublicanismElect the President
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Over 1,300 people voted in the initial ballot for the yet to be created position of President of New Zealand. The ten candidates have been reduced to five. Those who dropped out were:
- Sir Douglas Graham
- Sir Robert Jones
- Sir Kenneth Keith
- Don McKinnon
- Vincent O’Sullivan
The five remaining candidates are:
- Professor James Belich
- Jim Bolger
- Dr Claudia Orange
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Sir Wilson Whineray.
Both lists are in alphabetical order.
Voting has now opened for the final ballot to select a President from the five remaining candidates.
You can vote online here. It is a ranked preferential ballot, so rank your top choice “1″ and your bottom choice “5″. Voting closes on Friday 31 October 2008 so we will get to find out who our fictional President is a week or more before we find out who his or her Prime Minister will be 
Vote for your Head of State
Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 4:00 pmVoting is now open in the first round of elections for New Zealand’s next head of State, organised by the Republican Movement who would like such an election to be for real.
The candidates are here.
You can vote in round one here by ranking the candidates from 1 to 10. The top five candidates will go through to a second round of voting. This round closes at 12 pm on Monday 15 September 2008.
Tags: RepublicanismAnd the nominees are …
Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 12:38 pmThe Republican Movement has announced the top ten nominees for the position of President of New Zealand. A mock election will be run online later this year. The nominees are:
- James Belich
- Jim Bolger
- Sir Douglas Graham
- Sir Robert Jones
- Sir Kenneth Keith
- Don McKinnon
- Claudia Orange
- Vincent O’Sullivan
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Sir Wilson Whineray
The first round of voting will see five candidates eliminated. Then there will be a series of further votes until there is a winner.
I’m not sure who my preference would be at this stage. Possibly Dame Kiri as she would be wonderfully politically incorrect at times!
Tags: RepublicanismNominate a President
Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 11:29 amOne day New Zealand will be able to choose a New Zealander as Head of State. We’re not quite there yet, but to get people thinking about it, the Repubican Movement has opened nominations for New Zealand’s 1st President.
Just go on through and nominate the New Zealand you would most like as our first NZ Head of State.
The top five nominees will then be announced, and a series of votes held to select a winner.
Tags: Republicanism