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The
31 bossy How-to-vote Cards lodged for
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See
the array
of 31 bossy How-to-vote cards
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SA’s
electoral law is tailored so that SA’s use
of quota-preferential proportional
representation is dominated by the will of
the party organizations, as voters are
steered into marking a single box
above-the-line, because their only
alternative if they want to rank the
candidates individually is to mark every
preference below-the-line, without a
single mistake. |
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There
were 74 candidates, and a ballot is only
valid if at least 73 boxes are uniquely
numbered, each with a different integer
between 1 and 73. |
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4
of the 35 “Groups” of candidates did not
lodge a How-to-vote
card. |
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11
of the 35 “Groups” of candidates consisted
of only one candidate. |
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28
of the Groups’ How-to-vote cards
effectively instructed voters NOT
TO VOTE BELOW THE LINE, which
amounts to a demand that voters forego
their right to show preferences for other
groups and candidates in the order they
prefer, and instead slavishly submit to
the party machine’s imperious and
self-serving command to vote as told. A
similar message was softened in the more
polite – and possibly more effective –
statements instead by the three more
sophisticated operators, who were the only
party groups with candidates likely to be
elected:
Liberals
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‘No need to complete the “below the
line” section’, Labor
– ‘You
do not have to fill out any boxes
below the red line’.
Greens
– ‘You
do not have to fill out boxes below
the red line’. |
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The
Liberals, with 7 candidates, were the only
Group to have more than 5 candidates
for the 11 seats to be filled. |
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Contrast SA’s almost party
list mentality with |
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