clipped from: www.stuff.co.nz Mr English has tabled an amendment to the Electoral Finance Act that would mean election adverts would not have to carry the home addresses of party officials.
Under the Electoral Finance Act, any political party or third party which wanted to advertise during the election campaign needed to list the name of a party official and their home address on the adverts.
Mr English said recently that anyone who saw the adverts would be able to track down the party official named on it at their home address "and do some of the crazy things all sorts of people do these days".
Mr English said Green Party billboards put up around Wellington two weeks ago contained "an illegal authorisation statement that is written sideways and in such tiny type that it cannot be read from the road".
Large billboards put up by NZ First in Tauranga contained no authorisation statement at all, he said.