I’m surely inviting a “well actually…” here, but it still boggles my mind that we can’t put up one giant “how to vote” sign for each party/candidate within view of the cardboard voting booths, instead of handing the exact same 2-3 pieces of dead tree to every single person on their way in, only for those pieces of paper to have an effective life of a few minutes before being tossed in a recycling bin.
Even assuming they are 100% recycled, there’s still cost/effort/enviro impact from the production, distribution, and disposal of these that just seems so wasteful.
Much like the sustainable Australia party talking about over development etc - they are literally saying they are going to waste council funds (which the community provides) by fighting things they have no control over at all.
These dumb cunts will say anything to get elected.
Closer to 5%, vast majority end up in the bin in the polling place which ends up in landfill.
I never take them and encourage those who do to hand them back to the party workers after voting
It’s illegal to hand out how to vote cards inside and on the ground of the venue. That’s why they’re all outside the gate of the school when you walk in.
It’s also illegal to be wearing a campaign shirt in the voting area.
While I agree that there should just be 1 how to vote placard per candidate inside the venue and no one handing out cards out the front, it would take a change in legislation for this to occur.
Fed govt awards the license. It’s a fairly complex beast though - lots of moving parts including connecting to the grid via a TNSP, nothing a council can stop either way.
Lots of people take a HTV to show their support (even if they know what they want to do) and some theatrically refuse. Others take one of each to disguise who they’re supporting and others take one of each because they’re working it out in the queue.
I actually had the chance to talk to several voters yesterday in my 4hrs on a booth - it’s actually really pleasant whether they vote for you or not to remind people that “political types” don’t all have two heads and can actually speak to human beings.
The rule is that they can’t campaign inside the polling station or within 6m of the entrance, so they can go inside the school grounds. At Abbotsford PS they were definitely inside, but were lost in the school fete that was going on.
It depends how the preferences flow from the Lib. If Lib voters mostly preferenced the Greens 2, then the second Green would hit quota once Lib exhausts and it would be 1 Lab 2 Greens.
They start with whoever got the lowest vote, knock them out and reallocate any votes for them which put a second preference down. Then carry on with the next and exhaust any votes which don’t have a further preference.
You’re likely looking at 1 Green 2 Lab, most voters at this level haven’t preferenced at all, just 1 above the line. But then again it’s a fairly historic election with a lot of media attention paid to the Lib fuck up so maybe people looked into their candidates for once.
Oh just standard preferences approach but they haven’t done anything other than count first pref so far and not split out below the line vs above the line
