When is the election?

No doubt the ‘other’ election has been dominating the New Zealand media. The recent election in Cambodia, that is.

Not only could you not vote from Overseas, but you have to go back to the village you are registered in to vote. For most people, that is the village of their birth.

Could have made for some good parties, but drinking was banned during the voting period. So much for an armed society being a polite society.

Most people got a holiday – including the garment factory workers. So check those labels – Made in Cambodia is good.

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“..I am very pleased to say that I was one of the overseas voters that helped get the Greens over the 5% in 1999 ..”

thanks for that jingyang..

..it was the o/s votes..and the cannabis reform votes..

..that did it..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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Does that mean you are also available for selection Toad?

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So does Jesse Ryder!

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cricket bats and stumps sequester carbon

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Stephen

If there are votes in it and you live within 60 miles (who cares about the carbon foot print) then I will make up the numbers myself.

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Well big bro you will have my party vote, and even my candidate vote if your local big bro can encourage the public to join my club because as we well know it’s hard to play a full season of cricket when you have to call half a dozen friends to make up the numbers

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Stephen

A fair and reasonable question, well one of them has ruled himself out of contention and is at this very moment chasing an England cap whilst plying his trade on the county circuit as a Kolpac player (you need a European passport).
The other I was a huge fan of (simply because of his basic technique given that most of our batsmen are seriously lacking technique wise) but he has had his last chance as far as I am concerned.

You might also be interested to learn that immediately I am elected I will fire Bracewell, I am not going to have him hanging around to inflict further damage on the side until his contract is at an end.
Vettori will be demoted as Test captain and Fleming will be reinstated in that role.

Iain Butler will not be allowed within 100 miles of another NZ cricket team.

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Considering that National like to claim that these people have all gone overseas to escape ‘Helengrad’ and ‘the nanny state’ and stuff, John Key is presumably counting on all these people voting National.

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I’d have to know what your policy is on banning the Marshall twins from ever wearing a certain coloured cap again big bro

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“Not because it is best, just because it is like Europe and therefore sounds good in their minds.”

No consideration of the policy(s) at all, they just do it cos it’s familiar? Makes them sound on the stupid side.

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StephenR:
I never said anyone was stupid, I was pointing out an influence that would affect how they considered environmental issues. No-one lives in a bubble, everyone is influenced by many things.
Good point Frog, I didn’t consider those living in Australia.

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this one prehaps?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NewZealandProgressiveGreensLogo.png

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Fancy joining Stephen?

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i’d love to see your party logo

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When you think about it, I really am the voice of reason.

VOTE BIG BRO!

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Look if your not paying taxes why should you get a say in how those taxes are going to be spent.

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You can’t vote from overseas if you haven’t been home in the last 3 years. So the criticism that if you’re not around you shouldn’t get a say does apply. But I fail to see how you should automatically lose one of your main citizenship rights just ’cause you pop overseas for a bit. Surely we want to encourage citizens to get experience in the big wide world AND participate in our relatively healthy democracy.

Most countries in THE WORLD give their expats a right to vote. In fact, Australians have to, no matter how long they’ve been away as they have compulsory voting and they get fined if they don’t (fascists).

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Mr Dennis –

Furthermore many are living in Europe…

No, as the article I linked to suggests, a significant majority are living in Australia.

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Regarding NZers who are “long-term” residents overseas, there is in fact a restriction that one can only vote if one has actually been in NZ sometime in the last three years. Within this restriction, any CITIZEN can vote —there is nothing about “taxpayers” only – (NZ is a democracy, not a republic).

When I lived overseas, I was still a NZ citizen, and like any other, was entitled to vote.

In addition, while I myself may have been overseas, my family, friends, bank, some investment etc were still in NZ. I always knew I would return and that I would therefore have an interest in the future of NZ.

Now, as for voting Green from overseas, while there may be an element of for some of “the European socialist influence” as some right-winger posters here would like to pretend, for me it a different reason:

Living abroad made it very clear to me just how much of NZ’s “clean green” image is bullshit (by a simple compare and contrast with the practices in Japan and Taiwan and Hong Kong, where I lived), and on the other side of the same coin just how valuable that false image was to NZ in marketing and selling our products overseas.

It is quite to me that a country and a people can only get so far with such a false image, and that sooner or later it will come back to bite us on the bum. That is why I voted Green.

I am very pleased to say that I was one of the overseas voters that helped get the Greens over the 5% in 1999

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