Voter ID bill before federal parliament

1. “The Forging of Votes”  ISBN 0 9591879 3 6 – published in 1994, it describes Vote Frauds that happened during WW2 and subsequently
2. “Corrupt Elections” (with sub-title:- ballot rigging in Australia) about year 1997  ISBN 0 9587104 0 6 summary of a seminar with 15 speakers, including Sen Nick Minchin and Marshall Cooke QC
3. “The Frauding of Votes” published circa 2002  ISBN 0 9591879 9 5
4. “The Frauding of Votes”, second edition with a 30-page powerful Introduction by famous crime-fighting journalist Bob Bottom OAM   ISBN 0-9587104-3-0
5. “The Stolen Election, Australia 1987” (with sub-title:- according to Frank Hardy)  about year 2005  ISBN 0 95871045-7
6. “The Frauding of Elections?” published in 2003, with Appendix by Peter Brun
7. “Wolves in Australia” published in 2013.  It covers many topics other than Vote Frauds, which are mentioned as she predicted a new type of Vote Frauds to be implemented by GetUP on pages 451-455.  (I discovered GetUp workers doing this type of activity in Macquarie in the 2016 election in which Liberal Louise Markus narrowly lost her seat).
8. 3.1.9 The Hon Chris Pyne, who retired after many years in federal Parliament, said on a TV program in year 2000:  “There are a lot of people out there who have been involved in electoral frauds for purposes of pre-selections or elections who are too terrified to come forward to talk about it.”

This recommendation by the JSCEM to require ID at polling booths is finally being pursued by the federal government after this finding:

3.141    The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 be amended to require that:

• voters must present a form of acceptable identification to be issued with an ordinary pre-poll or election day vote. Authorised identification must be suitably broad so as to not actively prevent electors from casting an ordinary ballot. Examples of acceptable identification would include:
• photographic ID such as a drivers licence, passport, or proof of age card;
• government-issued identification card, such as a Medicare card, senior’s card of concession card;
• proof of address, such as an account from a utilities provider, taxation notice of assessment or Australian Electoral Commission issued voter registration letter; or
• alternatively, a ‘voter ID’ card be introduced and issued to all voters.   
• where voters cannot provide acceptable identification they must be issued with a declaration vote.

3.142    The Committee further recommends that, in order to make this change as easy as possible, the national rollout of Electronic Certified Lists be fully funded (see Recommendation 25).

Mr Stewart said the new laws did not go far enough regarding postal voting which can easily be frauded by a lack of proper identification when registering for a postal vote. The submission continues:

3.2  Let me explain why people involved in electoral fraud are too terrified to talk about it.

Here is the front page of the Daily Telegraph in 1999.  I have been friends with this man since 2005. To protect him from being bashed up again, I have blotted his name out in red.

His assault was reported on the front page of the Daily Telegraph in 1999.

3.2  He was severely assaulted after he spoke up about pre-selection rorts and electoral frauds in the Labor Party.

He is prepared to come and testify to the JSCEM to tell of the electoral frauds that he participated in over a period of years in federal, State and Council elections using FALSE names on the Electoral Roll as instructed by some of the key ALP leaders in Sussex Street HQ and some ALP MPs.  He is prepared to talk at a public hearing of JSCEM, and I have offered him several times to JSCEM, but have been furiously opposed by AEC officials and by then (circa 2007 or 2013) Liberal party Chairman of the JSCEM.

This story below is how I met him in 2005 and how he revealed to me how the ALP stacks the Electoral Rolls with possibly thousands of FALSE enrolments, that are enabled by the sloppiness in Section 98AA(2)(c) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act :-

3.3.2 BELINDA’S STORY
For the person’s protection, I use the codename “Belinda”.  I saw the damaged fragments on the ground of an assault on his house about two weeks before the by-election.  And he appeared on the front page of the Daily Telegraph in 1999 when he was severely assaulted.

On the Tuesday after the Saturday Werriwa by-election, I had a conversation with him as follows.  Because I was so shocked, I have a very vivid memory of every word (except the rapid succession of 5 or 6 names, some of whom were unfamiliar).
 I said, “On Saturday I saw a person voting twice – once at my polling booth, then when I delivered lunch to my wife at another polling booth.”
Belinda said, “We used to do that all the time when I was in the ALP.  Sussex Street HQ would give us a list of 600 names, and there was a group of us, at least a dozen, perhaps 20, and we would go from polling booth to polling booth, voting in different names.  Sometimes we didn’t even bother finishing the list, and by mid-afternoon we would all go to the pub.”
I asked who in Sussex St was involved and ‘Belinda’ named 5 or 6 names of whom I can reliably remember only Eric Roozendahl and Mark Arbib.
I said, “But this is a safe ALP seat!“
Belinda said, “So what?“
I said, “But how often did this happen? Only federal elections? or State elections too?“
Belinda said, “Federal elections, State elections, Council elections.  It’s been happening for 10 to 15 years that I know of.  And we never got caught or questioned.”

Indigenous Streets Movement

The Streets Movement is an Indigenous community development organisation with a base at James Cook University in Cairns.   It provides programs, pathways and opportunities for the disconnected, forgotten and wayward, helping them re-engage with opportunity, education and community.

This group’s leader, Mr Jesse Martin is concerned about Aborigines and Islanders having to provide identification before voting.

In an ABC Radio interview, by his comments, Mr Martin has little knowledge of remote indigenous communities, or does he realise that community members have to show ID before going to the canteen for a beer or providing ID to receive any money through the post office or Centrelink or to show their drivers licence when they are pulled up by police.

No ID, then a big fine is incurred. The most important civic duty is voting and ID in most cases would stop others voting in another name which has been common for many years in Aboriginal communities and just about everywhere else.

It is legion on any polling day throughout Cape York Peninsula where polling booth staff, mostly Queensland teachers and other state government employees warn indigenous voters they ‘must vote for the Labor Party or they will lose their sit-down money’.

Cairnsnews is well aware there are up to 6000 names on the State Division of Cook (Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait) electoral roll which are never struck off as having voted after each election. Their authenticity has been in question after numerous elections.

It is totally irresponsible for Mr Martin to reject compulsory ID for any voter.

Mr Stewart’s submission continues:

6       Media coverage about vote frauds

6.1       Piers Akerman wrote in the Daily Telegraph – see appendix 6.

6.2       Ross Coulthart was one of the main researchers behind the three Sunday TV programs in year 2000, which contain much factual information that is damning of our electoral systems and the AEC.  You can find the three TV programs at the bottom of the home page of www.hschapman.org or individually here:

6.3       Rowan Dean on Skynews on 22/7/2018 at www.skynews.com.au/details/_5812183488001

6.4       Alan Jones on Skynews on 5/3/2019  at www.skynews.com.au/details/_6010096288001

6.5       Alan Jones on 2GB on 26/2/2019 at www.2gb.com/democracy-in-crisis-how-voter-fraud-could-be-costing-mps-their seats/

6.6       AFHE’s first national conference on Electoral Reforms

• Guest speaker Mark Latham, interalia, gives some very interesting information and admits ALP has an internal vote fraud mechanism at https://youtu.be/MN–E9XQj-s
• AFHE President Lex Stewart at https://youtu.be/CMFj3CBiB_A

7.12     Other issues that need to be discussed within JSCEM and/or the Government

could include:

1. Compulsory vs non-compulsory voting
2. Full preferential numbering vs optional preferential voting for the lower House
3. Further reforms to the Senate voting system – the March 2016 amendments were, according to some people, a step in the right direction, but the outcome in the 2 July 2016 election that 15% of voters were in effect disenfranchised means that further reforms need to be considered.
4. Options and models for Electronic Voting, which has many components.  Some components, for example the ECLs described in section 2.7 are good; other components are fraught with difficulties due to computer hacking.
5. Making challenges to the Court of Disputed Returns less clumsy and less costly;
6. Changing the AEC from its ‘closed dictatorship’ model at present, whereby the AEC management committee comprises only 3 persons {the Commissioner, a skilled, seasoned bureaucrat who can easily outwit the other two members:- the official Statistician from the ABS (who has largely an ancillary, advisory role) and a retired Judge (who may be a political appointment blind to actual voting processes)}.  I suggest an open democratic model, whereby the committee should comprise at least 12 persons drawn from a variety of sources, such as was the case for the 12-person “State Pollution Control Commission” committee under the SPCC act, 1970.###