Scrutineering at the NZ Elections

I’ve been quite busy as late, working as a volunteer scrutineer at one of the Electorate offices set up to count and verify the election results.

I’ve been working with a nationwide team, (the Election Integrity Project) that was set up, partly as a result of the USA elections that were questionable in their integrity.

However, it seems a single person within the legal team running the election decided to hobble us as much as possible, and arranged as much obstruction as possible, even breaking their own rules to do so.

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Another Groundswell protest

I’ve been to so many protests in the last three years, I’ve lost count.
But it struck me at this one, that it’s become almost a social event for me, in that I end catching up with the same people I have been protesting with, these last few years.

It was never meant to be like this, but it’s nice to be around like minded people who care as much as I do about the same issues.

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