Voting

[five 7]

The Aussie Electoral voting system has always been a bit of a mystery to me as it's so different from ours over here, I had this link sent to me to try explain it. ( take out any perceived bias some may see, it was the overall system I'm looking at)
https://youtu.be/YiLAx7kp4Rc?si=1k0bla4uuIp8_i6l

[aussiblue]

it's so different from ours over here

Where be that; your forum profile does not say where you are:

[five 7]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

Where be that; your forum profile does not say where you are:

Next door across the ditch. Safe from the sheep jokes now with the goat revelations.🤣

[EBSXR6]

[QUOTE=five 7;6962343]The Aussie Electoral voting system has always been a bit of a mystery to me as it's so different from ours over here, I had this link sent to me to try explain it. ( take out any perceived bias some may see, it was the overall system I'm looking at)QUOTE]

In an Australian Federal Election the Lower House (House of Representatives) Preferential Voting System according to the advocates helps people's wishes be better represented.

It is possible in a first past the post system where you have 3 or more candidates that the Winner of a seat gets less than 50% of the Vote.
E.G. An Electorate has 100, 000 voter's with 3 Candidates running.
A gets 40,000 Votes
B gets 35,000 Votes
C gets 25,000 Votes
A wins with only 40% of the Vote.
With Prefential Voting Candidate C having the lowest vote is
Eliminated and preferences distributed.
Depending on how people voted, not everyone follows the how to vote card or sometimes a candidate may have options on the how to vote card for prefrencing different Candidates, Candidate B may end up winning.
This is a very simplistic answer.

To try and explain the Senate is like War and Peace. Check out AEC.gov.au,
that may help you.

[jaydee]

All I can say is, thankfully it's not like USA.

[Interceptor]

My big issue with the preferences is how it helped one particular scumbag who was only directly representing (IIRC) 0.15% of the Australian population to be able to hold the government at the time to ransom.

[simon varley]

yeah, overall preference voting is pretty good, but maybe there needs to be a cutoff (5%???) to be eligible to receive preferences?

[EBSXR6]

First past the post would stop all these dodgy backroom preference deals and the result would be known a lot quicker.

[naddis01]

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

First past the post would stop all these dodgy backroom preference deals and the result would be known a lot quicker.

If people took the time to understand how the preferential system worked and voted how they wanted rather than the way the how to vote card tells them to, then backroom preference deals would be a waste of time.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by naddis01

If people took the time to understand how the preferential system worked and voted how they wanted rather than the way the how to vote card tells them to, then backroom preference deals would be a waste of time.

Very true, many people do the Donkey vote instead of thinking for themselves, something the parties rely on for their deals.

[Tonz]

early voting I and mate drove into private paeking area to do our early voting, variousa knobs were all trying to tell us where not to park....where they all had their plackards up so we 'pretended' to miss the brake and drove over 8 billboards or whatever they are called very satisfing and profuse appologies but didnt shift the old Mazda ute.