(Note: this article currently appears out of order and with one paragraph missing because I mistakenly saved a draft over it. The on-the-day coverage thread is below)
Yesterday I gave Labor and the Greens a serve for trying to take the moral high ground on campaign donations when their "attempt" to reform them in the previous parliament had been a token, late, poorly considered politicised flop. Today - which happens to be election day, ho ho - it's the Liberal Party's turn.
On one of the strangest final days of a campaign that I can recall, the Liberals were forced into damage control after it became known that they had a policy of relaxing various gun laws. However, rather than release this policy for public discussion, it had been provided to a firearms consultations group on 9 February. The letter surfaced only on the final day of the campaign, after being posted on a shooting website.
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Saturday, March 3, 2018
Election Day: Blue Skies With A Fair Chance Of A Poll Fail
Welcome to my on-the-day election coverage. (See my main guide page with links to electorate pages.) I may be adding comments now and then through the day on anything I feel like commenting on. I expect this to continue up to the release of the Southern Cross exit poll around 6 pm. I will be live blogging on the Mercury tonight with coverage expected to start around 6:30. Once that goes live a link will be posted here at the top of the page. After I finish the coverage there will be comments posted here overnight - I am hoping this will include the rollout of postcount threads, but it may not.
Note for media: I won't be available for any interviews other than the Mercury between 5:30 and 11; I may be available briefly after 11. Also, tomorrow (because nobody paid me to stay at home) I will be on a field trip to Tooms Lake, will not be available for in-person interviews and may at times be out of mobile phone range.
My advice to those still to vote is simple: number all of the boxes. Even if you find you are getting into candidates you cannot stand or have never heard of, putting the lesser evils ahead of the greater evils will make your vote more powerful than if you stop. Numbering all the boxes will never disadvantage the candidates you prefer or advantage those you most dislike, because your vote only flows on to your less preferred candidates once those you most prefer have all been elected or eliminated.
Note for media: I won't be available for any interviews other than the Mercury between 5:30 and 11; I may be available briefly after 11. Also, tomorrow (because nobody paid me to stay at home) I will be on a field trip to Tooms Lake, will not be available for in-person interviews and may at times be out of mobile phone range.
My advice to those still to vote is simple: number all of the boxes. Even if you find you are getting into candidates you cannot stand or have never heard of, putting the lesser evils ahead of the greater evils will make your vote more powerful than if you stop. Numbering all the boxes will never disadvantage the candidates you prefer or advantage those you most dislike, because your vote only flows on to your less preferred candidates once those you most prefer have all been elected or eliminated.
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