Explainer - Radical overhaul is needed - that is the conclusion reached by a panel which spent two years reviewing the state of local government. RNZ has all you need to know.

This is a summary of the Future for Local Government report - He piki tūranga, he piki kōtuku.

Recommendations that stood out to me were reducing the voting age for local elections to 16, implementing ranked voting (STV), and increasing the term limits to four years.

Also, not mentioned in RNZ’s summary is the recommendation that the number of local councils is reduced from 80 to about 15.

  • @DaveMAEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Honestly at this point there is no sense in continuing this conversation because you just willfully misunderstand what is being said.

    I’m sorry, you seemed willing to explain and I genuinely do not understand why my concerns aren’t valid (though you have certainly done your best to try to explain it so thank you for that). I suspect I may just not really get it, but the approval voting wikipedia page just assumes it’s only used for picking a top candidate so doesn’t help at all. I even tried getting chatGPT to explain it to me but it told me:

    Seat allocation in parliamentary systems is usually determined by a variety of methods, including party-list proportional representation, mixed-member proportional representation, or single-member districts. These systems take into account the overall share of votes a party receives and aim to allocate seats in a way that reflects the proportionality of the vote.

    Approval voting, on the other hand, does not directly account for the proportionality of votes. It focuses on identifying the candidate with the most approvals without considering the order of preferences or the relative strength of support for different parties. As a result, using approval voting for seat allocation in a Parliament may not adequately reflect the diversity of voter preferences or the proportionality of votes received by different parties.

    I apologise if you got the impression I was faking stupidity, I assure you it’s genuine.

    • @BalpeenHammerEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      We apportion seats according to percentage of votes casts. We would use the exact same method. Why is this so confusing to you? Count the votes cast, count votes for the party, take a percentage. You continually keep saying that the “sub parties” will be able to transfer their votes to the “parent party” and allow the parent party to get more seats. That’s not allowed now and it won’t be allowed under this system.

      So yea I don’t believe that you are genuine at all. I think you are wilfully and disingenuously misunderstanding something I keep repeating over and over again.