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Date received	Tags	Submitted by	Submission
1 Mar 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	Andrew Sutherland	1. No more than 120 seats proportioned 50/50 including Maori seats as part of electorate seats 2. No additional seats until each electorate reaches 100,000 voters, including Maori seats 3. By elections only to be held in event of a death, illness or imprisonment within 12 months, & none within 6 months when election due 4. List candidates can leave at any time and the party should be free to select whoever they wish to to replace them 5. Candidates can be on both list & electorate. 6. Election lists and rankings only cover the election period + 3 months 7. Threshold for list seat to start at 1.2%, if a party gets more electorate seats than party vote no additional seats 8. Number of Maori seats to be determined by a referendum
5 Apr 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	Andrew Thorpe	I would like to see the threshold for pulling a below-5% polling party into parliament increased to 2 electorate seats. That is, If only 1 party member wins an electorate seat, then only that person would enter parliament, even if their share of the party vote would equate to more seats. This would prevent individual charismatic politicians like Winston Peters pulling in a number of inexperienced and unknown people into parliament.
21 May 2012	Order of candidates on the list	Andrew Veale	The easiest and best way to select candidates for the list is to have the 'list' made up of the MPs that were closest to winning (but were edged out) in their electorate. These are people that the public obviously want. The main advantage of this system is that it cannot be manipulated by back room deals. The unions cannot specify who is high on the list for labour, and corporates cannot specify nationals (nor can dodgy cults). Also, unpopular MPs cannot be brought back by parties. The reason that this system is not likely to be taken up by political parties is because party leaderships love the ability to manipulate the list to please backers. This is precisely why it should be used. Easy to understand, unbiased, representative.
24 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list	Andrew Wells	1. In the Electorate of Epsom 15,835 voted for John Banks to win that seat. All across New Zealand 59,237 voted for the Conservative Party. In total ACT got 23,889 votes on election night and got one seat due to Banks winning the Epsom seat while the Conservative got no seats even though they had over two times the amount of the party vote. This tells me that the threshold is too high and should be reduced down to 2% of the party vote. 2. The list system has to be completely changed. What gives the politicians a right to get to choose which members get in and which don't. The public should be given the ability to choose the order of the list as it is a right to choose the people who represent us, otherwise the MMP system is hypercritical.
16 Feb 2012	Other issues	Andrew Yates	The idea of List MP's seems to be totally ineffectual. Which specific members of the population do they represent. If we have MP's for particular wards at least this makes them accountable to that specific area. It also gives the Parties more power, and makes individual MP less accountable to the people.
17 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list Overhang Proportion of electorate seats to list seats	Andy Brown	Happy with the 5% threshold per party. Don't think it needs adjusting. Get rid of "coat-tailing" for parties under 5% Elected MPs only for parties attracting less than 5% of total vote. A candidate should be able to stand for a seat and appear on their party list. Happy that parties can decide the order of their list candidates. Proportion of list seats to electorate seats should be the minimum required to reflect the proportionality of the total vote. Not sure what it is at the moment but an electorate/list ratio of around 2:1 seems fair and reasonable.
29 Mar 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Dual Candidacy Order of candidates on the list Overhang Proportion of electorate seats to list seats	Andy Foster	List threshold is roughly right. Shouldn't be too low- suggest 4 or 5 %. Dual candidacy - a candidate should be able to be on the list and contest an electorate seat. Likely to mean higher ranked/better candidates context electorates. Order of candidates on list - voters should be able to rank them as they want Overhang - no problem with current arrangements Proportion electorate vs list seats - Don't change it, especially don't reduce % of list seats. Thank you
5 Apr 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds) Dual Candidacy Other issues	Andy Hipkiss	My preference for changes to MMP are as follows: 1. Reduce parliament to 99 MPs to reduce costs and unwieldy Parliament. 2. Keep the Maori seats and Maori roll, leaving 92 other seats to be contested. 3. MPs should not be allowed to stand in both an electorate and as part of a party list. This will stop cheating inherent in the current system as seen in Epsom by ACT and National. This will also ensure more honest & open debate in electorates. 4. Keep threshold at 5% to keep out single issue or 'joke' parties but give genuine parties able to interest significant numbers of voters a chance. 5. Winning a seat through the electorate should not allow a party to add more MPs if they are below 5%. 6. Enforce compulsory voting by law.
20 Feb 2012	Basis for eligibility for list seats (thresholds)	Angela	the list issue means anyone who can convince 5% of the voters can head for parliment and there have been some less than serious persons or groups, that can influence the ability of the chosen govt.
29 Mar 2012	Proportion of electorate seats to list seats	Angela Calkin Goeres	I think the eligibility of bringing in extra MPs when a party has one electorate MP but doesn't have 5% of party votes should be reviewed. The same threshold as the eligibility for list seats should apply. E.g. if a party has one elected MP but doesn't reach the 5% threshold of party votes, they shouldn't be allowed to have any further MPs.