Can we rely on By-election results being correct?

On Sunday 22July 2018 on SkyNews, doubts were cast whether we can trust the results of the looming five By-elections.

Our Electoral Rolls lack integrity, thus enabling Vote Frauds,” said Lex Stewart, President of Vote Australia on the Outsiders program, where Rowan Dean asked questions about a list of 16 Electoral fraud cases in Australia, while Ross Cameron provided horrific information about Vote Frauds in USA.

It is not just me who is concerned. Reports by the Australian National Audit office state that the Electoral Rolls are in a shambles.”

Official advice to me recently is that the Electoral Roll contains at least 248,000 incorrect enrolments, many of which have been deliberately falsified.”

Salim Mehajer, Deputy Mayor in Auburn, was sent to jail a month ago for deliberately adding fraudulent names to the Electoral Roll.

Noreen Hay in Wollongong is another example of many that Vote Australia could provide.

Also Australia is one of the few countries in the world that lacks a requirement on voters to identify themselves when they go to Polling places to vote,” said Mr Stewart.

Voter ID is required in most countries. Kenya and Iraq introduced it last year.”

Using Vote Frauds, marginal seats can be won by candidates who are not the ones for whom the majority of voters truly voted for.

Our voting systems are simply not capable of delivering true Democracy,” said Mr Stewart.

“The government needs urgently to consider amending the Commonwealth Electoral Act to curb Vote Frauds.