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MMP is dying, help to kill it

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TPM is urging its voters to elect TPM electorate candidates but give
their party votes to Labour/Green, thus creating a Left-favouring
Parliamentary overhang.  NZF isn't waiting to get beaten up, instead
they are countering by urging all government supporters to VOTE
NATIONAL FOR ELECTORATE, VOTE NZF/ACT FOR PARTY LIST.  If all
government supporters do this (even you, Crash), then there will be a
huge pro-government Parliamentary overhang and we will avoid a
nightmare Labour-led government. 

In support:  National listers hardly get in anyway, their electorate
MPs pretty much soak up the National share of list votes.  Don't waste
your list vote on National, give it to NZF or ACT, create a
numerically strong government with strong NZF/ACT components to give
backbone and purpose to the government coalition.

As for MMP, it's a trainwreck of an electoral system which always
depended on "good faith" party conduct to avoid precisely this
scenario.  People, "good faith" days are over, society is too divided
and mistrustful, thanks to left-wing radicalism.  We badly need to
switch to the Australian preferential (STV) system which is
electorate-only (i.e., no list) and always counts your vote in the
final two-candidate count (assuming you've included one of those
finalists in your preference list). 

So this year, vote National for electorate, NZF or ACT for list. 
  

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MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-08-18 22:43 +0000
  Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> - 2026-08-19 15:01 +1200
    Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2026-08-20 00:19 +0000
      Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> - 2026-08-20 16:58 +1200
    Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-08-27 23:31 +0000
      Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2026-08-28 01:50 +0000
        Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it BR <blah@blah.blah> - 2026-08-28 18:42 +1200
      Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it BR <blah@blah.blah> - 2026-08-28 18:42 +1200
      Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> - 2026-08-29 08:54 +1200
  Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Average Joe <average.joe@maildrop.ue> - 2026-09-02 18:56 +1200
    Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-09-03 07:18 +0000
      Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Average Joe <average.joe@maildrop.ue> - 2026-09-04 19:53 +1200
        Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-09-04 08:54 +0000
          Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Average Joe <average.joe@maildrop.ue> - 2026-09-06 19:38 +1200
            Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-09-06 08:39 +0000
              Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Average Joe <average.joe@maildrop.ue> - 2026-09-06 21:53 +1200
                Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it wn@nosuch.com (Willy Nilly) - 2026-09-06 20:49 +0000
                Re: MMP is dying, help to kill it Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2026-09-06 23:14 +0000
            Re: MMP is not dying, futile to kill it Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-06 22:08 +0000
              Re: MMP is not dying, futile to kill it Average Joe <average.joe@maildrop.ue> - 2026-09-07 12:00 +1200
                Re: MMP is not dying, futile to kill it Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-07 00:25 +0000

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