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Democracy is fun!

Filling out the New Zealand election review submission form like it’s an exam. Because I’m awkward like that and with questions phrased like “Should the 5% threshold be kept or changed? Why? If you recommend change, what should it be and why?” it’s really hard not to. Although some questions are poorly worded, such as “Is this a problem, and what should be done to fix it?”, as that invites people who don’t think it’s a problem to not even answer and thus makes it a question where there would be informal opinions/votes.

I love democracy though. It allows me to do such a thing as tell the electoral comission that I’d really like a lower threshold and that publicly alterable party lists would be rather nice. 

Even if almost all the names on both the five-minute and full submissions pages seem to be men. :/