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| 2012-11 | TASMANIAN COUNCILS:
See the PRSAV-T Inc. submission
on Government changes proposed for local government
in Tasmania. |
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| 2012-10 |
ELECTION TECHNOLOGY:
Timely article on US
experiments in election technology by Dr Vanessa Teague of
the University of Melbourne. See also "Electronic
Voting" on Wikipedia. |
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| 2012-09 | FREE
SEMINAR: For candidates and supporters on
Election Campaigning in multi-councillor wards in
Victoria's 2012 Council Polls - 19 September 2012 at
8 p.m. - email info@prsa.org.au or telephone 04291
76725 for details of the Melbourne venue. |
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| 2012-07 |
JSCEM: PRSA submission
to federal Joint Select Committee on Electoral
Matters putting the case for constructive reforms
such as optional preferential voting for
below-the-line Senate voters, rather than
restrictive measures like larger deposits |
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| 2012-05 | VALE:
Maurie
Fabrikant, PRSAV-T Inc. Treasurer 2004-11, who
was also an Accredited PR
Vote-counting Officer, died on 2012-05-16, and
is sadly
missed. |
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FINALLY GONE: Australia’s
last provision for use of the undemocratic
multiple majority-preferential electoral system,
which was replaced for Senate elections in 1948,
was removed when the NSW Local
Government Amendment Act 2012
received Royal Assent on 2012-04-04. Future
elections in
two-councillor Council wards will
now be counted by proportional representation
using the single transferable vlote, which is the
counting system used for most NSW municipalities. |
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| 2012-01 | COUNTBACK: Full details of
countback elections to fill municipal casual
vacancies in Victoria pleasingly began to appear on
the VEC website for the first countback
for a Melbourne City Council seat, which was
conducted on 2011-07-19. Since then at least two
more, for Benalla
Rural City Council and Moreland
City Council, have appeared with distribution
sheets available. The Tasmanian Electoral Commission has a more accessible arrangement, with a hyperlink for all countbacks, but it is now confusingly calling them "recounts" although the distinctive term "countback", which refers to a recount of ballots for the specific purpose of filling casual vacancies, originated in Tasmania. |
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