So a few people have asked whether anyone at Ku-ring-gai has been impacted by the election nominations stuff-up but as far as I know, everyone that intended to nominate at Ku-ring-gai has nominated.
I do feel for the 140+ candidates who missed out – it’s frustrating to be let down by internal policies and procedures.
And the nominations process provided by the NSW Electoral Commission was by no means perfect – I myself was locked out of the system for over 60 hours over the weekend because of poor implementation / bugs on their end (it was a major cause of stress).
But the nominations system, as buggy and poorly implemented as it is, was open for 9 days and 4 hours and if people leave it to the last few days to sort it out, then I’m not surprised by the outcome.
I personally don’t think the NSW Electoral Commission should open the can of worms by letting late entries in. I understand the rationale to do so, but it sets an inappropriate precedent that cannot be unwound. Furthermore there may be candidates out there who already have their HTV material authorised by the electoral commission and who have sent their material to the printers and for distribution. To now tell the electoral commission to redraw the groups and tell candidates across NSW to fund their own reprints (and potentially miss time sensitive distribution deadlines) is not fair.
It’s been a stressful week with a lot of logistics and content to sort out. I had one night where I only slept 3.5 hours. But I think most of it is under control now.
