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Originally Posted by Draco T Bastard
It just brings more people under the electioneering laws that we have had for the last century or so to help maintain our democracy rather than handing it to the rich.
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The current law, the Electoral Act, was only passed in 1993.
FYI, it says on the subject of electioneering:
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no person shall publish or cause or permit to be published in any newspaper, periodical, poster, or handbill, or broadcast or cause or permit to be broadcast over any radio or television station, any advertisement relating to an election unless the advertisement contains a statement setting out the true name of the person for whom or at whose direction it is published and the address of that person’s place of residence or business.
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The Electoral Finance Bill says that all of these are advertising in the year of an election:
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(a) print or insert in a periodical published or distributed in New Zealand; or
(b) issue, hand out, or display; or
(c) send to any member of the public by any means; or
(d) deliver to any member of the public, or leave at a place owned or occupied by a member of the public; or
(e) broadcast; or
(f) include in a film or video displayed to the public; or
(g) disseminate by means of the Internet or any other electronic medium; or
(h) store electronically in a way that is accessible to the public; or
(i) bring to the notice of the public in any other manner
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That's supposed to be an improvement? Where for anyone to "bring to the notice of the public in any manner" is an act of political advertisement regulated by law? For a YEAR instead of 30 days?
Have you lost your mind?