"They have a few things like rape and pillage going on around the country, and this is simply ridiculous to tie up senior members of the police force with this kind of garbage." In Jim's world, electoral law breaches are not an offence. I suspect Labour agrees with him. Mr Anderton said the letter was sent outside the regulated period under the Electoral Act, but the commission referred it to police on the basis that the letter was not properly authorised. The regulated period has nothing to do with this. In fact, the law for around 20 years has been the same in terms of requiring authorisation. It has an extensive range of fact sheets and videos on the five different electoral systems. Very readable and simple. They have nifty features such as "Which voting system is right for me" which asks you questions on what you think is important, and how important, and then measures the systems against your preferences. They also have a You Tube channel . One of the videos  I have embedded below. They are all quite short, so worth viewing all five of them. By coincidence I was at Waikato University yesterday, speaking to the NZ Law Students Association Conference on the referendum. I was on a panel with Margaret Wilson and Tim Macindoe. For those interested, I've embedded my presentation below. Note this is my presentation, not from the Electoral Commission. The Government today named two members of the new Electoral Commission, which has