atw: OT: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for resumes for tender responses!
- From: "Terry Dowling" <Terrence.Dowling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:48:44 +0800
Well, as a renown fence-sitter, I agree and disagree. I think it’s good that
we are required to go to the polling station to show that we care. If you don’t
bother showing, who’s to say that you’re not one of the people who forgot or
don’t care? If you want to make a point, you can write on your slip as John
says. Tell them they’re a bunch of corrupt tossers, or whatever.
It used to be that you could make a valid vote circumventing preferential
voting by numbering similar to this:
2 No choice
1 Candidate of choice
2 No choice
2 No choice
2 No choice
This was deemed to be a clear indication of wanting your vote to go only to one
person (candidate of choice) and then become informal so that no-one got the
preferences. If you made the ‘2’ ‘9’ it was even clearer. However, they changed
the legislation about 10 years ago so that the whole vote is now informal.
The amazing thing is that in the senate votes, virtually no-one knows where the
preferences go if you put the ‘1’ for the party above the line. At the last two
elections I’ve asked the booth staff and all of the folk handing out
how-to-votes. Nobody knew and the only people who were able to rummage out the
info were the Greens.
So, it is now unlawful to vote with clear intention, but you can vote the lazy
way and not know who’s getting your vote. Great!! (where’s that new sarcastic
font?)
Cheers,
Terry
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