What To Know Before You Vote - Today - How To Use The Truly Complicated STV Voting System

BEFORE YOU VOTE – please try to get your head around how STV voting works – it is truly complicated.

With our “What to Know Before You Vote” series - today - we cover STV Voting.

The Short Version of STV Voting:

• The STV Voting system is very complicated
• Practice on a piece of paper before filling in your voting form
• DO NOT tick the boxes
• Write a number - Rank people in the order you want 1, 2, 3 etc
• You don't have to put a number next to every name
• Only vote for someone if you want them to be voted in as a Mayor or Councillor
• If you vote for people you don't want, your votes for them can be transferred to other people on your list - so only vote for someone you want on Council.

What does STV stand for:

Single Transferrable Voting – a system where anyone you vote for may have those votes transferred to someone else on your list – which is why we say don’t vote for anyone you DO NOT want sitting at the Council table after the election.

The longer version with more detail - and a video to watch - is on our website page, here:

https://www.npratepayers.nz/page/656999

Click on the + sign next to this heading to see the detail:

+ How to Vote with Single Transferable Voting (STV)- NPDC