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Date received	Tags	Submitted by	Submission
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Proportion of electorate seats to list seats	Max Coyle	The threshold should be reduced to 1% Half the electorate seats should be replaced with list seats
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	Robert Glassey	Apply the threshold to the candidate rather than the party. Every MP should require a minimum number of votes to enter parliament on a party list. A party with 4% of the vote could get up to 4% of the seats, if they have enough candidates with the support to justify each candidate being in parliament. MP's should not enter parliament on the back of a party threshold or one MP who wins one seat, if they can not get even a minimum level of support from their own community. Every MP should be personally and directly accountable to voters.
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) By-election candidates Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list Overhang Proportion of electorate seats to list seats Other issues	David Tordoff	5% threshold - change to 10%. Essential that we get away from small minority parties dictatating national policy. Seat threshold: decrease the number of seats awarded. We need to stop the tail wagging the dog. Combination: Candidate only elected if the local electorate vote for them. List MPs by-elections: Yes, except we should do away with list MPs. Dual candidacy: No, stop putting people in parliament who have not been elected. Recommend: Individual candidates should be mandated by the electorate. List MPs are mandated by their party and do not represent the electorate. Voters should. >seats - they shouldn't get the extra seats. MMP The sooner we get to a system where there are no list seats available the better.
14 Feb 2012	Order of candidates on the list Other issues	Mathew Harris	While we have a say on which party gets in to parliament, I would also like the option of who gets in. I.e. voters having more control over party lists. Also, I would like a say as to who gets into cabinet.
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) By-election candidates Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list Overhang Proportion of electorate seats to list seats	Jay Daley	There is no justification for an arbitrary threshold for list seats. The threshold should be calculated each election as the minimum required for a whole seat. There is no reason to exclude list members from contesting by-elections. There is no reason to prevent dual candidacy While open lists would be preferable in principle, it would in practice lead to too complex an election process and so the current closed lists should remain. Overhang is an unavoidable effect of FPP elections for some parliamentary seats and should be accepted. Balance seats compensate for this fairly and should be introduced without arbitrary thresholds. A fixed number of seats for the South Island is not needed with modern transport and communications
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) By-election candidates Proportion of electorate seats to list seats Other issues	G Vine	There should be an equal number of electorate and list seats (say 60 of each) so the "party vote" determines how many of the 60 list seats a party gets. However, retain the 5% threshold for winning a list seat but abolish the link between winning an electorate seat and getting list seats. List MPs should not be eligible to be by-election candidates. An option to be explored is to limit the number of list seats any one party can win to 20 and in addition to the "party vote" electors should be able to rate each party's list from 1 to 20 so that if, say, a party's vote entitles it to 5 list seats, then the top 5 on the voters' preferential count are the five elected (ie, not necessarily the top 5 the party might have ranked).
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Overhang Other issues	Hamish Carson	I would like the 5% threshold to apply to all parties regardless of whether they win an electorate seat. This may make the chance of an overhang more likely but it could be countered by adding extra list seats if an overhang occurred. I think electorate seats should be elected by preferential voting rather that first past the post. This would be fairer as it would stop the left or right of center vote being split and ensure the overall most popular candidate would win the seat.
14 Feb 2012	Order of candidates on the list	Robert Glassey	Party lists are too large for every candidate on the list to be critically assessed by every voter. They are further complicated by the uncertainty of not knowing who is likely to win their electorate seat and who will remain on the list to be eligible for list seats. Any system of direct voter selection of the list order would be difficult to vote upon for the same reasons. A simpler system would be to base party lists on the proportion of votes each electorate candidate gets, so that candidates that narrowly loose an electorate are at the top of the list, in keeping with the high level of voter support that they have received. Parties choose their candidates, and voters choose which candidates they want.
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Overhang	Matt Dutton	A party that gets 3% of the vote should be eligible to a proportional number of seats - this should be the only threshold for list seats. . Winning an electorate only should not bring any extra MPs to Parliament. Keep the overhang. I like the rest of the law the way it is. Please add an extra clause making deliberate or negligent false statements in parliament punishable by up to five years in prison.
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	E Hutchinson	I would like to see removed the 'One elected candidate allows others to be list members of a party' If a particular party does not receive enough votes to put members into seats, then it should miss out.