Saturday, September 29, 2007

Vote No on MMP (Mixed-Member Proportional)

Do not be fooled this coming election and vote for MMP. Our first past the post the post system works. The problem is low voter turnouts not the system. The process was flawed from the start. At no time was it discussed on how to increase voter turnout only what flawed system will be adopted.

MMP has three major flaws. First no party will ever have a majority again. All MMP governments are coalitions which means back room deals forever with the inevitable corruption that breeds.

Second it fractures the political system into multiple small parties whose votes are needed to create a coalition government which means the majority will be run by the minority interests of these small parties.

names and the rest will be party cronies, Third MMP contains a Party List which voters have no influence on. The party picks who is on the list not the voters. The voters can only pick which party has the least objectionable list and hold their nose and vote for it. This is the Party List and the people on it have no need to listen to the voters as their loyalty is to the Party. In the future the List will have one or two palatable names on it and the rest will be party bagmen/women, and the party leader's friends 'n' family.

Please do not vote for this flawed system in October.

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