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on the 2016 Liberal Party how-to-vote card below
for a zoomable picture of it, for finer detail. The
card below names no Liberal candidates for the
Senate, but it does name Derryn Hinch, from a
rival party! Its failure to name any such
Liberal candidates amounts to its asking voters to
elect unnamed persons.
The three largest parties resent the increasing success of smaller parties in the Senate. Nevertheless, parties that successfully exploit a candidate's name; Hanson, Xenophon, Lambie and Hinch; together elected as many senators as the Greens in 2016. The Liberals advantage their smaller rivals by stubbornly refusing to show their Senate candidates' names on their how-to-vote cards, as though, unlike their smaller rivals, the Liberals have no Senate candidates that would be recognized or appeal to voters as individuals, or it does not respect the democratic significance of the Constitution's requirement for the direct election of senators. The card ineptly ignores, and thus potentially offends, below-the-line voters, who obviously think that there is a need to number the boxes below the thick black line, by the card's standard message that there is "no need to number the boxes below the thick black line". |
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