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Articles
Have postal voting application forms
destroyed the secrecy of our ballot system?
Bob Brown – Australian Greens
Senator
“The
Greens believe there are no grounds from an
administrative or participatory democracy
perspective for postal vote applications,
supplied by parliamentarians, to be returned
to parliamentary offices prior to being
forwarded to the AEC. Data form the 2007
election demonstrates a considerable delay
of forms returned via reply paid envelopes
to parliamentarians arriving at the AEC. Of
the PVAs issued by the AEC 69% were returned
on the same day as the witness signature,
whereas only 27% of PVAs issued by the
Liberal Party were returned within 4 days,
and 36% of the Labor PVAs were returned
within 4 days.”
“The Australian Greens will move
amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral
Amendment (Political Donations and Other
Measures) Bill 2009 in the Senate that will
require any PVA as sent out by political
parties to be returned directly to the AEC,
and that will remove the amendment to the
Act that allows the inclusion of other
written materials with any PVAs distributed
by political parties and other
organisations. “
Destruction of Australia’s Secret Ballot System
1990 – 2010
Integrity of Australian electoral systems
Management
of the electoral roll
Integrity of the System
Styles of Voting
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"That the electoral system is open to
manipulation is beyond question
... Fraudulent enrolment is almost impossible to prevent."
(NSW Electoral Commissioners, Messrs R.
Cundy and Ian Dickson, NSW Government
Inquiry 1989) |
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