Are you referring to what I said about the CTU ? After all they are just a division of the Labour Party which picked up the ball (of lies) from CTU and ran with it
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https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/12-10-2023/advance-voting-latest-with-two-days-to-go
Advance voting latest with two days to go.
The latest update from the Electoral Commission records that 127,774 people cast advance votes yesterday.
That means, as of close of play Wednesday there had been a total of 970,818 advance voters. Depending on final turnout, that’s likely to be about a third of all voters.
With two days of advance voting to go in 2017, the advance vote tally was 806,380; at the same point in 2020 (after a longer advance period and with Covid in the air) it was more than 1.5 million.
Picked up my te Maori Parti beanie today. :p
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/13-10-2023/advance-voting-latest-2
Advance voting continues to track a little above the levels of 2017, but down on 2020. Yesterday, 151,280 votes were cast, bringing the advance total, with one day (today) left to over a million: 1,122,098, to be precise.
It’s difficult to draw too many conclusions about what this does or doesn’t presage as far as the overall turnout is concerned. Yes, it’s half a million below the same point in 2020, but that was an unusual time: with Covid social distancing a constant worry and, accordingly, extra days and voting places, that was always going to be a tough act to follow.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/13-10-2023/election-eve-poll-points-to-closing-gap
Election-eve poll points to closing gap
A Roy Morgan poll published this evening reinforces other recent surveys in showing a closing gap between right and left.
Conducted between September 4 and October 8, the poll puts National down half a point to 30.5%, with Act falling from the unlikely height of 18% in the last Roy Morgan poll to 11.5%. It’s the lowest combined result in the poll for the two parties for two years. As other polls have indicated, National would additionally require the support of NZ First, up two points to 7.5% to govern, its best Roy Morgan result since December 2017. A three-party governing deal would hold 64 seats.
Labour is up two points to 26%, with the Greens up 2.5 points to 15%. Te Pāti Māori is down a point to 3% and Top jumps 1.5 points to 3.5%. (If Raf Manji were to pull off an upset in Ilam, Top would take four seats; combined with Labour, the Greens and TPM they’d together have 59 seats.)
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13...-the-big-night
What about during the day on Saturday?
In 2020, we showcased all kinds of dogs exercising their democratic right to accompany you as you exercise yours and we’d be barking mad not to do it all over again. On October 14 (or before if you’re voting early), please send us your photos of dogs at voting places around the motu (no humans please) to info@thespinoff.co.nz
https://images.thespinoff.co.nz/1/20...eat.jpg?w=1290
The top left photo is most relevant as it's the only one that shows the fluffy tail that will wag the dog.
The one below looks very feral, so no prize for guessing which party it represents.
Third from the Top left is begging, l wonder which that represents?
Better stick to our day jobs, no-one will be looking to employ the Sharetrader pollsters for the next elections. Lol.
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