An attempt by an outgoing member of the Whanganui District Health Board to change the board's voting system has failed.
However, district health boards may consider discussing how district health boards members are voted in, after the WDHB agreed to ask board chair Dot McKinnon to bring the issue up with the chairs of other DHBs.
At a board meeting on Friday - the first since the October local government elections - Allan Anderson, who did not seek re-election to the board, said he would like to see WDHB ditch "what I believe to be the flawed [voting] system of STV".
Referring to a report on the elections in the board agenda, Mr Anderson said nearly 3000 people either didn't vote for DHB members or had voted incorrectly.
"That doesn't happen with First Past the Post [voting system]. To ask people to rank candidates is absolutely ridiculous.