Off air tomorrow and potential election night coverage

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This blog will be off the air tomorrow. No posts until after 7pm. This is to comply with election related rules. I am on the road all day, heading down to Gisborne for an election night party, so it is unlikely that I would be posting.. But this does mean that this weeks twitter stats post will be delayed until after 7pm tomorrow. Please have a read of the Stuff article from today outlining the rules around the use of social media:

Watch what you tweet tomorrow – it could cost you $20,000.

Election officials are reminding users of Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media that they are under the same rules as the mainstream news media when it comes to publishing political messages on election day.

All I plan on tweeting is Instagram stuff from my trip.

 

I am not sure how I am going to cover election night at the moment. A lot of it will be over on my Twitter account. But I am also probably going to be covering some of the interesting tweets and graphics that come out here on the blog.

Assange and Suffragettes

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Today is Suffrage day. So needless to say that some parties are trying to leverage this to help get out the vote. In fact I am surprised the media haven’t made more of it. All I have seen is one story about who a large number of Kates who all cast advance votes at once. One party that is pushing this connection is the Internet Party. Laila has issued a press release:

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Not the Six O’Clock News

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This campaign has seen a number of parties try a number of things to get their message out. It has also seen a number of attacks on members of the media, from all sides, alleging bias in on direction or the other. There have also been accusations of reporters not doing their job. I will leave that discussion up to others. But I have been interested in watching the Internet Party’s approach to by pass the news cycle.

 

On the 7th of September the Internet Party rolled out a video on their Youtube channel called Not the Six O’Clock news. The videos focus on Laila Harre presenting a mock 6pm news bulletin:

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Jamie Whyte and Ask Away

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I have blogged before about Ask Away and how it is influencing the media. But it looks like it might have played its role in tripping up a party. A quick recap first, Ask Away is part of Massey’s Design and Democracy project. It is a system where voters can ask questions that get up or down voted, parties are then able to answer with their positions on the various questions. One of the questions that was asked was:

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