This 1993 pro-MMP poster from the Electoral Reform Coalition features a cartoon by well-known cartoonist Murray Ball. The Electoral Reform Coalition, the main lobby group for the MMP (mixed-member proportional) electoral system, was a group of citizen volunteers. It operated on a small budget, spending $181,000 on its campaign in 1993, a fraction of the spending of the anti-MMP Campaign for Better Government. This poster plays on a perception that the opponents of MMP were business interests and politicians who had been running the country for years while taking little notice of public concerns.
Courtesy of the Electoral Reform Coalition
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University of Auckland Library and Learning Services, Special Collections
Reference:
Electoral Reform Coalition. Papers re proportional representation campaigns 1979-2000. MSS & Archives Vault 154
Cartoon by Murray Ball
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