I wrote about this topic at length and for years, but what I've learned is that there's little point when it doesn't reach the masses. Our media have got significantly worse in the last year or two as well, with TVNZ running another report last night that underplayed the full extent of the voter oppression law - and making it sound like a "young persons' problem"

It's not looking great, guys.

Greens blast 'backing the gangs' election billboard ads

Nicky Hager also revealed that Jordan Williams funnelled money from foreign tobacco companies to Campaign Company, and that Taxpayers Union staff listened to the instructions of tobacco executives. A reminder TPU aslo ran a astroturf campaign for the tobacco industry, that is linked to the death of 5000 Kiwis a year, when Labour suggested introducing smoke free generation.

Congratulations, Dame Ardern, on a new role that suits your passion and experience.

RNZ

Show up and cast a vote anyway if you can. Have your vote counted as a disallowed/invalid vote.

Last election around 16,000 votes were disallowed. If that number climbs exponentially this year, it will show that the Electoral Amendment Act has in fact disenfranchised a ton of voters and proves it is not fit for purpose.

Late enrolments and special votes generally swing left. After almost 80 years of on the day enrolment being allowed, this change could tip the election in a way that shouldn't happen in a fair democracy.

Credit to @tiriti_me_rite on Instagram for the idea and the stats

It is irrefutable that this ad is intentionally depicting Chris Hipkins as Freddy Krueger, fictional child murderer and pedophile.

But besides the baseless character assassination, are there not issues with copyright given the AI that generated this attack ad has done little to seperate it from the actual Nightmare on Elm Street IP?

This is very bleak for the state of our politics.

Kia ora, my name is Kyle Turnbull and I am the Alliance Party candidate for Banks Peninsula, and transport spokesperson. See you tomorrow!

The left has won in both Brazil and Serbia- and on the same day no less :)

It’s time for the right to be pushed out, and it’s up to us to vote to make it happen!

I see why National and ACT successfully got rid of Maiki Sherman with Ani O'Brien and Taxpayers Union's help, she brought context to the news

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361051060/could-national-and-labour-ever-form-grand-coalition

Just bringing this back because what the actual… I was in school when this was happening and remember young girls messaging him, he would reply ridiculously fast and regularly. Looking back now I actually can’t believe he got away with doing this it’s disgusting

Brazil 🇧🇷 ✅️

Serbia 🇷🇸 ✅️

Israel 🇮🇱 🤞(fraud and then war crime trials if so 🤞)

Aotearoa 🇳🇿 from what I've witnessed and heard there's been a sea of people voting on the first day of voting which is very encouraging to me🤞

People hate being told to vote strategically yet strategy is everything in an election as close as this

u/mountain_tui_reload

here’s the picture of the “error” that comes up when trying to submit voting paper and declaration through vote.nz. Tried on both Chrome and Edge, but no luck on either browser.

Any other overseas voters having issues submitting their ballot and declaration?

Partner has been trying to submit their form online, has tried both edge and chrome, and the vote.nz website just refuses to submit uploaded declaration and ballot paper. And keeps saying “whoops, something went wrong” and says “error” with no definable error.  

Complete farce. It‘s like they’re *making* it difficult for overseas votes to count.

Simeon responds with an attack

It's a bit of a misleading position to posit that the real problem in our political system is mainly "tribalism " and "left and right" parties.

Tribalism is not truly about left or right, it's simply a values based view, and perhaps a humanity one too in terms of whether you think humans, writ large, and our wider environment/nature are more valuable than money, corporate dominance, and trickle down economics, or not

Ironically, some of the most tribalistic people that I see aren't unique to so called "left" and "right" parties, while attacking others as tribalistic for arguing against policies, politics and parties that the evidence shows is harmful/regressive to a majority of ordinary citizens (and our nature and environment)

The left have always favoured evidence based policy - whether it was Helen Clark setting up the mega successful sovereign wealth super fund (ranked nearly #1 in the world and which added almost $10b to Kiwis last year alone), or promoting fair pay, or the banning of deep sea trawling, or water protection policies, and for trying to tackle root causes in crime versus the US sty;e punitive approach of the Nats/ACT/NZF

That the so called "left" have been maligned for following evidence, represents the success of the right and the corporate media - think NZME and Hoskings (his boss going to RNZ soon), Murdochs, etc. and big money backers which almost invariably favour the right

The left have typically always respected and promoted robust Select Committees and evidentiary policies. Those take time and require widespread consultation. Delivery is always the hardest and fixing issues from generations does take time too.

OPP is great at marketing and I saw Qiulae say similar points about "centrist politics' and "evidence based approach" on Q&A this week, but in all honesty, OP/TOP aren't offering anything new in this particular regard, and I do believe it's rather naive to say it's some how a groundbreaking concept that they've invented to be "evidence based" and "centrist" and "long term".

If OP pass the threshold, it will be because of the stitch job on Ardern that rendered so much disinformation in the Kiwi psyche e.g apparently Labour "ruined the country" on debt (no they didin't, they did what every country did and did it the best in the world from a health/social/economic perspective - according to two Royal Commssions so far. John Key incurred $60bn debt with no-one complaining, but Labour's was somehow criminal when saving lives, let alone Luxon on track to incur $120bn debt last year)

People are tired and looking for someone to blame, and some thing to hold on to. And it's easy being a minority party, if you dis-believe that, just ask Winston Peters.

So yes, vote for whoever you want - that's the nature of democracy, but spare me your lectures about how groundbreaking you really are.