(Because what could be more thrilling to readers than an election they don't care about in a country they've probably never heard of?)
Friday 7th November: 2:30pm
Oh shit. Places where New Zealanders in Australia can vote probably aren't open tomorrow, are they? And I still can't download my freaking papers, since the electronic geni(us)es can no longer find me on the system. I'd better go vote.
Friday 7th November: 2:49pm
Well that was easy.
Now what?
Saturday 8th November: 3pm
I wonder if anywhere in this city will be showing the election coverage live on a big screen? Or, you know, at all? I could do with being drunk and patriotic in public.
I google "nz election party" + [this city].
Hah. Yeah. Bad search combination. I mean the OTHER sort of party, Google!
Saturday 8th November: 5:30pm
The polling booths in NZ closed at 5pm our time, so maybe there'll be something to blog about now.
Ah. Yes. Okay.
I think it's already over. 3.5% of the vote has been counted and National is well in the lead. Even ACT looks like it's going to romp into a seat or two or five.
Farewell, Helen Clark. I liked you quite a lot, akshually.
Shortest. Liveblogging. EVER.
Saturday 8th November: 5:39pm
I quickly write a blog post that isn't really "live" at all. Unless you are some sort of time traveller. Shhh! Maybe no one will notice.
Saturday 8th November: 5:43pm
I read back through this post checking for typos. Am horrified to see that Blogger underlines "Zealanders" as a spelling error. It suggests I change it to "Philanders" or "Colanders". Fuck you too, Blogger.
SPECIAL BREAKING NEWS: Saturday 8th November: 6:09pm
They haven't counted my vote yet, the bastards. I know this because I went to look at my electorate details and under "votes counted" it lists "special votes: 0".
They'd better count it before declaring a victor; that's all I have to say.
Saturday 8th November: 9:29pm
Clark concedes and it's all over. National will be forming a government together with ACT (gah).
They've counted my vote now, apparently, but it didn't help.
The silver lining is that NZ First not only didn't make the 5% threshold, but they didn't get any electorates this time around, either. Poor little Winnie...
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Liveblogging the NZ election
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:( I have to admit I only know about NZ elections what I learn from your blog, but I trust your judgment so I am sorry the people you voted for didn't win.
It usually takes a few days for the special votes to be counted. Since they tend to favour the Greens, it's possible Kennedy Graham might get in, as he's number 9 on the list. I think he would be a real asset to the Greens in Parliament. Fingers crossed!
Actually, the people I voted for did very well :) But I was hoping they would be able to have a coalition with Labour and bring them up to the majority that way.
Grace, I noticed that a lot of the special votes seemed to have been counted already. I think they were really pushing overseas and out-of-town voters to vote well in advance this time around.
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