There’s been some water under the bridge since 21 October 2012 when UC academic and vaunted electoral expert Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Government at the University of Canberra Robin Tennant-Wood called me a bozo for questioning her “official” prediction that the ACT Legislative Assembly would have an 8-7-2 split following the ACT election.
As history, and the actual real official announcement, shows the result came out 8-8-1.
It started with this:
@rtennantwood @luke_dufficy @danielle_post ElectionsACT have announced that have they?
— John Griffiths (@Griffiths_John) October 21, 2012
It went on like this:
@rtennantwood @luke_dufficy @danielle_post So not actually, what was that word you used? Official?
— John Griffiths (@Griffiths_John) October 21, 2012
To prove her point she sent a link which was password protected, making it a bit difficult to see her point, and as it was to the UC domain probably wasn’t official.
@rtennantwood @luke_dufficy @danielle_post Or this: electionresults.act.gov.au only 75% of primary vote counted. No major preference allocation.
— John Griffiths (@Griffiths_John) October 21, 2012
And ended with my reasonable questions earning the unexpected sobriquet of “bozo”.
@griffiths_john @luke_dufficy @danielle_post Take your problem with numbers to the ACT Electoral Comm, bozo, not me.
— Robin Tennant-Wood (@rtennantwood) October 21, 2012
The actual, official, results were published on 27 October.
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