Whatever rules may be adopted, they should provide for more voting, not less.
Though National can expect to count on ACT's continued support, its seat alone gives it only one more vote: not enough for a majority to pass critical legislation.
Today, as voter suppression schemes spread to restrict voting by the elderly, young and minority based on bogus "voter fraud", it's timely to consider a change that leads to more voting, not less.
Mitt Romney got eight more votes — votes, not points — than Rick Santorum, a margin of less than seven one-thousandths of one per cent of the total cast.
(And Hillary Clinton, who, it cannot be said too often, won more votes, was not of that new kind either).
But hope still flickers that regional diplomacy may yet persuade Mr Mugabe to go.Nearly a month after the election on March 29th, the presidential result had still to be announced, though independent observers reckon that the challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai, won far more votes, if not an outright majority.
They fear that giving it a say in policymaking in Hesse is likely to lose the SPD more centrist votes, not least in next month's election in Bavaria.Yet Ms Ypsilanti is not for turning.
Selling shareholders will get up to $470 million more, votes that aren't cast won't count against the deal, and a changed record date will mean a different mix of owners when ballots are counted on Sept. 12.
Not even Clinton herself, who despite winning nearly 3 million more votes overall, could not overcome Trump's appeal to rural voters in crucial states and Russian interference in the election.
"At breakfast this morning, they were saying that if every precinct could just get 30 more votes, it wouldn't be a problem," Ms. Cupp said.
