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Date received	Tags	Submitted by	Submission
21 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	henny jane siefkes-boer	Threshold: 5%. This could also mean a lower chance on an overhang.
21 May 2012	Dual Candidacy	helena johnston	do not like the way a member can get into pariament just because they are a list MP. Basically they are not voted in as a person but as a number in a list
17 Apr 2012	By-election candidates	helen anderson	i don't think they should have list members of parliament, i think they should go through the the election process
26 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) By-election candidates Order of candidates on the list	gregory bruce caldwell	1. Eligibility- threshold too low s/b 10% (We want substantial parties only) 2. Byelection candidates must stand for public ballot, even if they are on a party list.(No automatic interim shuffles without election) 3.Order of candidates on list - Party to choose ( as it does now) as we get benefit of people with special expertise, who may not be politicians 4. Proportion of electorate seats to list seats - Electorate seats are won fair and square, take precedence over list seats. An electorate seat won, is a seat in parliament. ...If party is under 10% threshold, then no additional list seats are granted. That way a single elected politician is less likely to bring a gaggle of party hacks in from list.
19 Mar 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	grant drabble	Am sick and tired of one MP winning an electorate and all these no-bodies become list MP's!!!! If party doesnt win 5% of party vote they get NO list MP's, dont care if somebody wins a electorate. No 5%, NO list MP's.
22 Feb 2012	By-election candidates Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list Other issues	graham murray thompson	BY ELECTION candidacy should not be available to already sitting list members DUAL CANDIDACY Candidates should only be able to stand in an electorate or on the list NOT BOTH ORDER ON LIST Preferential voting to cover the whole of New Zealand not just electorate by electorate OTHER !!VERY IMPORTANT!! List candidates must only be selected by some system of public input. Nominations only from the party leads to a sort of "jobs for the boys" situation in which the public really has no choice.
14 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	graham hunt	threshold should be increased to 7o/o and no less there should be less MPs
1 Apr 2012	Other issues	gordon young	1 i am not in favour of mmp in anyn way shape or form 2 there are too many parties in the house 3 the quality of the house membership is poor 4 the two main parties should amalgamate in an effort to unite the country 5 the changes to the political system over the time since mmp started has not been sucsesf
16 Feb 2012	Dual Candidacy	garry bryant	Requested change: Candidates for List Seats cannot stand for Electoral Seats and vice versa. At present a candidate can stand for an Electoral Seat and be high enough up the pary list to ensure thay gain (or keep) a seat in parliament. This is not fair and equitable or true democracy. It is playing party politics which is not what the Electoral System is designed for.
16 Apr 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	g creamer	Greetings, the 5% threshold was set up to stop a second "adolf Hitler" from gaining power without a serious groundswell of opinion. As people have not changed this 5% is still a good figure to keep because a forceful speaker can fool all the people for a short time but not for long. Examples, Sociial Credit.; Act; These extream parties need to see the light of day and fade when the euphoria has passed as it does in 5 years because the printing of monies or the selling of assets is not the true Kiwi life style of conservative honest government without corruption. This ideal struggles in the light of ponzie investments for naive farmers opperated by slick touts who almost excape retribution by friends in high places. That is another story.