Sabotage of hundreds of election signs by Greens supporters, a firebomb, a stolen trailer, prosecution of a union member and a protracted offensive against independent candidates by News Ltd’s Cairns Post newspaper so far have marred the 2019 federal election campaign.
Candidates said although they knew they would be ignored or maligned by the Cairns Post, the newspaper’s exceptionally favourable promotion of sitting Liberal member Warren Entsch has gone far beyond expectations.
Entsch was the champion of gay marriage legislation last year which divided the nation on religious principles. Analysis of the plebiscite results since the passing of legislation has revealed the results were dodgy at the very least.
Vote Australia analysed the Australian Electoral Commission database from where the Australian Bureau of Statistics got its addresses. More then 248,000 envelopes marked “return to sender not known at this address” came back to the ABS.
The ABS did not give these names to the AEC enabling it to cleanse the roll.
These fictitious names remain on the electoral roll which allows those having access to these entries to register a dud vote at the federal election, a ploy developed by the Labor and Liberal parties some 30 years ago.
At the last federal election according to the AEC, at least 18,000 persons voted more than once in support of the ALP slogan ‘vote early and vote often comrade.’
The Townsville seat of Herbert, being hotly contested by Clive Palmer, was ‘won’ by the ALP at the last election by just 37 votes.
In spite of hundreds of requests to Prime Minister Morrison from constituents, he has steadfastly refused to follow the recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to make voters provide identification when voting.
Leichardt is a marginal seat and voting fraud could be a lifeline for Warren Entsch or the saviour of ALP candidate and union hack Elida Faith.
Katters Australian Party candidate and charter boat skipper Dan McCarthy now is being attacked through social media by the Electrical Trades Union which is a sure indicator of his surge in the polls.
Once upon a time such election frivolity occurred only in corrupt Asian or African dictatorships, but it seems these tin pot nations had their training upgraded in Australia.
by Jim O’Toole, Townsville bureau
Wake up.
All the names on the AEC records are fake, that is they are not proper names.
Open eyes go back to school relearn English/Australian.
A once famous person said “If voting counted they would ban it”.
Yair, Annie Mac. I think you have a very reasonable (presumably womanly) “take” on the perversity that is commonly assumed to be the “right” way to impose a “new” ideology.
But, the ideologues who religiously, dogmatically, claim that EVERYTHING is inexorably proceeding toward a new, improved, “system” cannot provide any evidence whatsoever that anything, or any system, can create, or improve, itself by itself.
All the Royal Commissions that I know about are just are just very expensive farces that the secretocracy use as a publicity stunt to splash a bit of whitewash over their clandestine activities.
There will never be a valid Royal Commission until there are enough men of (at least) rudimentary integrity in positions where they can challenge the vast network of morally bankrupt goons and lackeys of an hostile ideology.
There needs to be a Royal Commission into voting and the AEC, for what good it would do..I have little faith in RCs…a lot of lies told, a lot of hot air, a lot of money spent with nothing being carried out to rectify matters afterwards.
It’s about time Australia had a Royal Commission into the media as to how much they misinform voters during election cycles .
Normally how it works is who ever pays the Cairns Post the most wins their election as you’ll find during Council elections where each candidate is treated as cash cows for Rupert’s mob .
Anyone not paying their quota gets treated as though they are not worthy of being voted for .