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Speaker 1: To the split voting thing. In the weekend, papers were full of full-page ads paid for by a group called RCR. Now, this appears to be the vessel for Don Brash and Nick Mowbray to promote their tactical voting tactic to create an overhang that could benefit the centre-right. I've already said I don't like it. The same way Don Brash doesn't like John Key telling people how to vote, I don't like people telling people how to vote. And, of course, their platform, this is Don and Nick, benefits in that they have the money to buy the ads, so they're out there trying to influence voters. Now, people have accused me of not liking it because Don and Nick are trying to benefit the centre-right. No, I don't like the way Te Pāti Māori are doing it either. And if the left were to do it, I wouldn't like it as well. If, say, Jim Anderton, who was a multimillionaire socialist, had tried it back in the day, I would have called that out as well. And now, of course, National has said the sweetheart deal with ACT in Ebsen is over. Again, they're telling people how to vote. And they have been telling people to vote for David Seymour for ages now. So they're all as bad as each other. And the problem with MMP is that we have two votes. So we use our first and then we actually play around with the second. So I actually looked over the weekend at what might happen if we had just one vote that counted for both the electorate MPs and the list MPs. to create a proportional parliament. Could it work? Will there have been studies? Yes, it could. It's not as subtle. It's a bit simplistic. And it could still cause an overhang if parties win more electorates than their national voting share entitles them to. But not having the second vote would certainly stop all this jiggery-pokery and attempts to game the system, which seems somewhat undemocratic to me. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live to News Talk ZB from 5 a.m. weekdays or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: To the split voting thing. In the weekend, papers were full of full-page ads paid for by a group called RCR. Now, this appears to be the vessel for Don Brash and Nick Mowbray to promote their tactical voting tactic to create an overhang that could benefit the centre-right. I've already said I don't like it. The same way Don Brash doesn't like John Key telling people how to vote, I don't like people telling people how to vote. And, of course, their platform, this is Don and Nick, benefits in that they have the money to buy the ads, so they're out there trying to influence voters. Now, people have accused me of not liking it because Don and Nick are trying to benefit the centre-right. No, I don't like the way Te Pāti Māori are doing it either. And if the left were to do it, I wouldn't like it as well. If, say, Jim Anderton, who was a multimillionaire socialist, had tried it back in the day, I would have called that out as well. And now, of course, National has said the sweetheart deal with ACT in Ebsen is over. Again, they're telling people how to vote. And they have been telling people to vote for David Seymour for ages now. So they're all as bad as each other. And the problem with MMP is that we have two votes. So we use our first and then we actually play around with the second. So I actually looked over the weekend at what might happen if we had just one vote that counted for both the electorate MPs and the list MPs. to create a proportional parliament. Could it work? Will there have been studies? Yes, it could. It's not as subtle. It's a bit simplistic. And it could still cause an overhang if parties win more electorates than their national voting share entitles them to. But not having the second vote would certainly stop all this jiggery-pokery and attempts to game the system, which seems somewhat undemocratic to me. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live to News Talk ZB from 5 a.m. weekdays or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
