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    Jeanette’s appeal to overseas voters - by frog



    According to Statistics New Zealand’s Sustainable Development and Population team there are up to 600,000 New Zealanders living overseas, most of them in Aussie (where Rayna Fahey just held her Green Party campaign launch last night).  Not all of them are eligible to vote, but presumably a significant proportion are.  Last election there were 28,000 [...] read more
    August 13, 2008 9:52 am - 42 Comments
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    How to rig an election - by frog



    Well politicians are slowly returning to Parliament after a long hot summer break, but those who aren’t back yet might want to put this little book on their beach towel reading list for the weekend – Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman’s How to Rig an Election. Freakonomics describes Raymond as: ‘A former G.O.P. political operative [...] read more
    January 16, 2008 5:04 pm - 9 Comments