by frog
Someone in Auckland has framed a copy of the Third Party Insurance Certificate that I blogged about on Monday, and chucked it up on Trade Me. The person behind the Trade Me auction is also pledging that all proceeds will go to the Green Party. How kind.
Published in Campaign by frog on Wed, September 14th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
I wonder if he’ll have to temporarily remove it from midnight Friday until the close of polling on Saturday? Serious question – because I’m not sure whether having election advertising up on a website/blog while the polls are open constitutes illegal election advertising.
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Craig, according to Section 197 of the Electoral Act no offence is commited because it was placed before polling day. The sale connot however be promoted on polling day.
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AFAIK, the electoral commission have passed the buck for another year and are ignoring all election advertising on the web again. I think they realise that it is too difficult to police/differentiate.
Several political parties got spooked and removed the links/content from their front pages in 99 and 2002 but all of them had the rest of the site up, so all other traffic, e.g. from search engines was still served.
I guess adverts on other sites should be banned after midnight, and that a parties own website is fine. But as to user-submitted content on someone else’s website, that’s a tough one, but I think it’s legal, you can’t make someone responsible for how content they submit to a website is used at a later date.
Maybe Mr Farrar or Carter would like to comment?
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I see the bidding has reached $16 … the description and the answer to the buyers questions are very well done …
I see that the seller, “piha tony” is the partner of a Green Party candidate. Who’s the candidate?
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It is an interesting situation. I will be asking people to make no advoacy comments on election day.
What I hadn’t considered is whether my Google Ads may result in a party advert appearing. If they do though then the fault is with the party who didn’t stop the ads with Google in time.
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Having now checked with the elections website:
http://www.elections.org.nz/news/CEOmedia_election_day_rules_150905.ht ml
It specifically says:
“Not post any new material on websites. Existing website material does not have to be removed, as long as the website is not proactively promoted to voters.”
So, watch for any new stories on a party website and call them out if they do.
Does frogblog count? Presumably frog will have to sign off before midnight and return to action at 7pm.
And watch for any kind of advertising for a party website on election day.
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So, I reckon that it would be legal for the auction to continue after midnight, since it is existing content. However the point is moot because the deadline for the auction is midnight on friday anyway.
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