This sums up our current PM very well!

[MarkCDodd]

Us Aussies are finally off to the polling booths on the 7th September.

It should be a massacre and the end of the Labor party for decades but alas voting is compulsory and we let dumb people have their say.

So the result will be the Liberal/National (conservatives) with a small but workable majority in both houses.

[peterd]

You don't have to vote just pay the fine

Should be the same here

[SRD]

What's the deal if you spoil your vote?

[MarkCDodd]

Anybody who deliberately Donkey votes should have the decency to not comment on the winning side for the next term of office.

If you are unhappy with the two major parties there are almost always independents or minor parties on the ballot.

Since the lower house is done by preferences and first past the post you need to understand which party will get your vote if it goes to second or third or more ballots.

So a vote for somebody who has no hope in hell of getting elected into the lower house is usually a vote for one of the major parties after preferences are distributed.

The upper house is proportional so if The Free Beer party got 5% of the Australian wide votes they get 5% of the Senate seats.

Inevitably you get a far more diverse range of parties in the upper house than the lower.

It is also why you get the racist parties, such as One Australia, having dribbling idiots in the senate.

There is no way for the Electoral Commission to tell who deliberately donkey votes.

[peterd]

a donkey vote in GB is counted as a spoilt paper so if every one or a majority did a donkey vote what message would this send to politicians would they then have to listen to the voters

[AndrewA]

problem with UK voting is your vote is not really secret. DO you really believe that agencies are going to abide by the law? No doubt a database has been constructed of every single voter and who they voted for, flagging up people who vote for undesirables such as BNP can then be tracked easier.

For UK people, when you next go to vote, look at what happens, the polling station officers write the ballot paper number next to your name on their register.

[MarkCDodd]

We just get a line through our name in the register and the voting forms have no identifying information.

[feral-underclass]

one nation candidate making a name for herself

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rview.html

[MarkCDodd]

She is a genius compared to the leader of One Nation. Bunch of racist twits who appeal to the lowest form of scum!