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Mr-X arrested for Voter fraud, appeared in court, got name suppression too

by Whaleoil on October 5, 2010

I’ve heard from various sources that Candidate X has been arrested and will be appearing in court shortly. I have also heard that he will be applying for name suppression.

I would hope that the media in court would be opposing this vehemently.

UPDATE: NZ Herald and Stuff both have articles about this.

UPDATE 2: Unsurprisingly Labour Party president Andrew Little has told Radio New Zealand that at least one person arrested has links to the Labour Party.

UPDATE 3: On the same day FIGJAM Power announces that name suppression will become harder to get some dumb arse Judge in the Manakau District Court gives someone who is charged with voter fraud name suppression just 5 days out from polling day. So tomorrow in the paper you aren’t allowed to know who he is, despite the fact he has cast aspersions on others.

If I was a candidate in South Auckland I would state right now in public that it wasn’t me who appeared in court .

UPDATE 4: For the record, I published before an order was in place, I am only changing this post to show what a complete farce the whole thing is.

We aren't allowed to know who he is

We aren't allowed to know who he is

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1201173949 petal

    Indians.

    Sorry. New Zealanders.

  • mikeman

    Looks like this has been supressed.

    You might want to pull the entry……. or maybe not :)

  • hagues

    If the details are suppressed how is Cam supposed to know if he is right about who is involved? If he takes it down he will only confirm that the person named is before the courts.

  • marybelle

    Why would there be name supression in this case at this time – unless of course Len Brown and the Labour Party didn’t want any of us voters to know before the Super City elections who it was and that they could possibly be associated with something questionable and crooked. This revelation now puts a question mark over a chunk of the South Auckland vote. Also it is interesting that Len Brown appears to be winning the mayoralty – and he talks about fairness and openness and transparency! 0/10 to the Judge who granted name supression on this occasion.

  • grizz

    Thankfully there is Google Cache.

    I think the Manatee spilled the beans before this blog site. Correct me if I am wrong of course. It would be hard to to uphold a name suppression if ***** (WO: There’s like a half a billion of them anyway) is already outed in the blogasphere.

    • grizz

      This is such a farce. My Grandfathers risked their lives repeatedly fighting for democracy. It is so disrespectful to them that I cannot name someone caught fiddling the democratic process. They will turn in their graves.

      Whaleoil and Spanishbride, I am going to have to ask you to edit my post as I cannot do it from this end.

  • http://www.cadlow.co.nz spanishbride

    Grizz please edit your blog post. I do not fancy paying $100,000 because of your comment.
    Thanks.

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      The law isn’t changed yet, the maximum fine is $1000.

  • http://www.cadlow.co.nz spanishbride

    They won’t charge the manatee or the media but WO just has to sneeze now and we will lose the very shirts from our backs.

    • cadwallader

      But: WO’s sneezes are wonderful and exquisitely targetted!

  • monty

    A public service has been done by getting the name up early and you have to have been living on Mars not to have known. Hell google electoral fraud and there is interesting information.

    What is amazing is that it is always the left involved in electoral fraud when it does happen – is this a hang-over from the years of corruption tolerance by Helen Clark?

    One thing is for sure – there is certain business which I will never deal with so long as this corrupt person is a member practising through that company (if he is not struck off as he should be).

  • ivyr6

    just watch TVNZ piece on that fraud which was aired 20 minutes ago on One News. Watch it very carefully ;)

    • grizz

      The TVNZ piece was no different to some of the name suppression posts on this blog. The picture and name of the offender was carefully filmed over the shoulder of the news presenter. Clearly TVNZ are pissed off they cannot say who the offender is.

  • gaskranken

    Listening to Lenny boy on 3news 2nite he sounded like a complete weasel – I’m surprised he wasn’t furiously slapping his own head over this one but he might yet, as they say in the trade, watch this space.

  • Agent BallSack

    Is it just me or does that shadow look like Winnie P wearing a turban? Of course, the court case will occur after the elections, requiring a multi million dollar inquiry with the conclusion ‘it did not affect the outcome’ but the lawyers and the government minions will get paid so all good for the trougher fuckers out there.

  • cadwallader

    Labour’s dirty Delhi-ance!

  • tristanb

    Haha,, that silhouette on the photo makes it look like this guy:
    http://www.toddfrye.com/images/Mohammed-bomb.jpg
    (Yes, I know. Completely different religion.)

  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ inventory2

    Name suppression in this case is outrageous. FFS, there is an election in progressright at this moment, and the voters have a right to know whether any candidates are implicated in this fraud, or whether any of the political parties running tickets of candidates are involved.

  • mintles3

    Had to laugh when reading this updated post, when clearly the person we are talking about is mentioned in the WO tweets running beside this blog.

  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ inventory2

    There’s an interesting addition to the blogosphere …

    http://shiftfocus.com.au/blog/2010/10/some_things_are_worth_fighting_for/

  • http://www.cadlow.co.nz spanishbride

    Grizz I totally agree with you. It IS a FARCE just an particularly expensive one for our family. When I saw it on T.V the so called face distortion ( oh my god what a JOKE! ) linked with the background behind the reporter and the obvious link of the business shown….

  • marybelle

    This particular name supression is so ridiculous. Everyone who saw the news tonight will know who it is now so what is the point of having name suppression? Who is it going to protect? Is there an innocent party? Also – isn’t this the same kind of corruption that Frank Bainimarama is stamping out before the Fijian democratic elections are held? Makes me wonder if we really do have a proper democracy here in NZ. What a farce this Super City election is becoming. Is this election crime just the tip of the iceberg? How do we know that all those involved in this scam have been caught out? Is the Super City election result on Saturday going to be a genuine result? So many questions and no answers – just name suppression!

  • http://www.cadlow.co.nz spanishbride

    I think the word ‘ interesting ‘ now belongs to WO

  • titanuranus

    The labour party, a fucking misnomer if there ever was one, are all a pack of Dipshits.

  • lordmontrose

    I note that Google still shows the name of a certain person on Kiwiblog, under the heading “Two arrests in electoral fraud case”. Does DPF get a $1000 fine and a conviction too? I have a screen image of the Google page.

  • soberontheshore

    There is absolutely no valid reason for name suppression if this case. It makes me sikh! We should all ‘sing’ out if we know who this person is, and it should not be kept under our turban!

    • Agent BallSack

      Straight to Sing Sing do not pass GO do not collect….oh hang on this is the labour party, yes yes you can collect your wages but shhhh.