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Proportional Representation Society of
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Tel +61429176725 |
npres@prsa.org.au | 2019-05-18 | ||
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on the 2019 Greens how-to-vote card below for a
zoomable picture of it, for finer detail. The
Greens handed out the card below near a Melbourne
polling booth. It names the first of the party's
six candidates for election as senators for
Victoria, but it does not name any of its other
five women standing.
As the Constitution requires the direct election of senators, it is strange that the Greens did not tell voters the names of its Senate candidates, as voters might wish to vote for the party's six candidates in a different order from that shown on the ballot paper, which they can easily do below-the-line. The 2019 how-to-vote cards gives the impression that its other Senate candidates are not worth naming. Unlike the Greens' good cards at the 2010 election, the card ignores - and thus potentially offends - intending below-the-line voters, who obviously consider that to be a better way to have their effect on the outcome. No reason, or apology, is given for offending those voters, whose votes could have helped the Greens. After discontinuing their earlier practice of revealing all their candidates on their how-to-vote cards, the Greens won fewer Senate places in 2016 than they had held earlier. |
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