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SUBMISSIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

Members of the public sent to the Assembly a total of 1,603 public submissions during the 13 months ended 27 September 2004. And you can access them all lower down on this page.

Incidentally, the numbers on the submissions appear to show that there are 1,669 of them. After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603. Unfortunately, we cannot renumber the submissions to reflect that.

If a posted submission is dated after 27 September, that date refers to the date the submission was processed and posted to the website, not the date it was received. 

To help you navigate through the 1,603 submissions received from the public, here are:
  1. An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word document (40KB) or as a PDF document (110KB).
  2. A link to the View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603 submissions
  3. A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts, available as an Excel spreadsheet (472KB) or as a PDF (348KB)
  4. A guide to the longer submissions (i.e., 80 submissions that run four or more pages in length). This guide is available as a Word document (36KB) or as a PDF file (96KB).
  5. A list of the 80 longer submissions, indexed by electoral system and including abstracts. This list is available as an Excel spreadsheet (40KB) or as a PDF item (90KB).

Submission List

To read a submission in full, click on the submitter's name/number
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MCNALLY-1398

I welcome a more democratically responsive voting system, similar to that in New Zealand [MMP], that would replace the present widely discredited first-past-the-post electoral system. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Diane McNally
Date: Aug 25, 2004

ADAIR-1397

'Thoughts and feelings on how the election procedure should be changed.'  [1 page]
Category: Democratic elections, Democratic government
Author: William D Adair
Date: Aug 25, 2004

PEDERSEN-1396

My choice for reform is some kind of modified proportional representation [PR].  This system should make all votes count, but must contain a safeguard that an election would not result in a legislature of a dozen splinter parties. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Leo Pedersen
Date: Aug 25, 2004

MUNDY-1395

Besides being fairer I am very much in favour of the side-effects of MMP: more equal representation of women and minorities in government, less regional fragmentation and less voter apathy, and more vibrant opposition in the Legislature. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Sarah Mundy
Date: Aug 25, 2004

SAXBY-1393

'Getting it in Proportion -- The MMP And STV Alternatives: How New Zealand Chose MMP'  [4 pages]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Phil Saxby
Date: Aug 25, 2004

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