This post is about progress of the New Zealand Independent Electoral Review, as I have seen it and responded to it, up until 17 September 2023.
In June 2023 the review secretariat published an interim report. It was to be found at https://electoralreview.govt.nz/assets/PDF/IER-Interim-Report.pdf
It may also be found here IER-Interim-Report
Submissions were invited, and I sent this one 3717Submission3Hitchcock. This submission provides a good summary of the issues involved.
I was disappointed by the Interim Report regarding its discussion of the Second choice of party vote. The report inappropriately lumped my submission in with those advocating preferential voting. The second choice of party vote is not a form of preferential voting, because it involves only a second choice, it is a second choice of party vote, because it is very simple to implement, and because the results in each polling place are independent of each other except for needing to know which parties passed the national thresholds.
The second choice of party vote involves a second choice of party vote. The second choice is there to allow every voter to have a say in deciding the number of seats for each qualifying party. This is important because all voters should have equal voting rights.
My submission suggested that the final report should demonstrate an understanding of the issues driving consideration of changes.
Two-choice party voting or The Spare Vote 