Is Electionz a front company for election.com?

My reflections with Warwick Lampp, of electionz, on the topic

The Otevoti above is a play on Otepoti which is supposed to be the Maori term for Dunedin. But poti (which is a loan word in Maori from the English for ‘boat’) also means vote in Maori.

Ote by the way is a loan word from English as well and means ‘oats’. Are our poti (votes) in Otepoti (Dunedin..) about to be carried away in poti (boats)? I suspect so.

The New Zealand local elections utilize two different types of voting. The first and the most common is “First past the post” voting which is in place at 63 out of 78 local council districts, including its most populous, Auckland. If Dunedin had used that system in 2019 then Lee Vandervis, rather than Aaron Hawkins, would have been our Mayor for the last 3 years. Save for the rapidly growing city of Tauranga that is currently not democratic at all and has Commissars appointed by the nati…