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To: The Street who wrote (4214)	9/21/2000 5:20:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 13056

Gidday Street, firstly, I'm just cruising by, following the Lebed saga and MamaBear's comment caught my attention and couldn't resist a comment. The NZ Libertarianz is an offshoot of National [Republican] and Act [an earlier offshoot of National]. I'm a member of Act and Libertarianz but have never been a National Party supporter or member. There are quite a few with multiple memberships. Their aim is Libertarian but for electoral success they are supporting half-way house Act. We have proportional representation here, so a party with 5% of the votes gets 5% of the seats in parliament. That way, people can vote more for what they want rather than against something and their vote gets represented. I think there should be a 1% threshold since there are 120 seats and a party could get 1% of the vote and that would be a seat. Then even fewer votes would be 'wasted'. Libertarianz is not all that small. You know, it just takes a bit of energy, empathy and intelligence to get votes [for a good idea]. Act was tiny, but in the electorate I supported, we actually got 24% of the vote which made some eyes open wide. There is timeliness of ideas too. Next election could see a good swing to Libz because Helengrad [nickname for Wellington and named after PM Helen Clark] is taking the country into apartheid and economic doldrums with an all-time low NZ$ vs US$. Mqurice

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