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on the 2016 Xenophon Team how-to-vote card below
for a zoomable picture of it, for finer detail. The
card below, which was handed out near a Melbourne
polling booth, names no candidate for election as
a senator for Victoria, but instead refers only to
some undisclosed 'Team' of the then South
Australian senator, Nick Xenophon. Given the
Constitution's requirement for the direct election of
senators, it is surprising that the 'Team' chose
not to tell voters in Melbourne the
names of its Senate candidates.
The Team's how-to-vote cards risk giving the impression that its Senate candidates are not worth naming. Unlike the Greens' cards at the 2010 election, the card urges - and thus potentially offends - intending below-the-line voters to "not complete the area below the line". No reason is given for offending those voters. As it turned out, the Xenophon Team won no Senate seats in Victoria, its eponymous leader resigned, and it has been renamed. |
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