Vote fraud alert: Katter Party and others, should heed the hard facts

By MICHAEL SLOVANOS

PSEPHOLOGIST (election voting expert) Lex Stewart is alarmed by Katter Party apathy over the issue of vote fraud and the coming Queensland election.

Stewart is one of the few psephologists in Australia who take the issue of voting fraud seriously. Another one was the late Amy McGrath, who wrote a book in 2013 detailing fraud.

The prominent ABC psephologist Anthony Green seldom, if ever, talks about it and the presumption of mainstream media is that it doesn’t happen in Australia or other western countries, only in the Third World.

Stewart says the Katter Party, the LNP and all minor parties need to attempt to reduce the votes for the Greens. “It would be good if the LNP, KAP and PHON urged people to do scrutineering as well as handing out leaflets at polling booths, because scrutineering assists in reducing vote frauds (done by the ALP).

“Part of the campaigning for quite a long time before the election needs to be culling out false enrolments from the Electoral Roll, such as I advised the federal MP for Cowper to perform in the lead-up to the May 2022 federal election.

“His staff culled out thousands of false enrolments, and if this had not occurred, then he would have lost the seat to a Teal independent.”

Stewart is also trying to get KAP interested in a campaign for a Queensland Upper House, based on the idea of combining three present electorates into two with the third electorate candidate being moved to the Upper House. This would not increase the number of MPs.

His proposal would yield 62 Lower House electorates in Queensland with an average of 59,000 voters, with 31 Upper House MPs, who, when standing for re-election, would cover the whole State.

Stewart is also urging KAP (and anyone else listening) to help reduce the likelihood of the Greens winning a Senate seat, by urging voters to number way beyond 6 boxes above the line – ideally by numbering all boxes putting the Greens last.

“Even though a person does not vote for the Greens, if they vote 1 to only 6 above the line, then
the practical outcome is that such a vote does assist the Greens to win the sixth Senate seat,” says Stewart.

“This is due to the little-known inbuilt mathematical bias in the senate voting method, which
was designed by the Greens, opposed by the ALP, and rammed through by PM Malcolm Turnbull.”

Also on the Senate, Stewart said Malcolm Roberts was likely to be re-elected. One Nation received 7.5% of the vote in 2022 which got Pauline Hanson relected, 10.3% in 2019 to get Roberts elected, and 9.2% in 2016. The quota is 14%.

“It would be nice to try to get Gerard Rennick re-elected somehow, but the LNP has put him at an
unwinnable position (on the Senate ticket). One idea would be to put him as number one in a new type of “coalition” Senate team of him plus KAP candidates as numbers two and three.

“If the LNP do not like this proposal and expel him for agreeing to it, then it makes him an underdog hero, and likely to get more votes.”

Stewart, who was campaign manager for KAP’s NSW Senate candidate in 2016 wants to know why KAP did not stand Senate candidates in 2022. KAP got 1.8% of the Senate votes in Queensland in 2016 and 2019.

“KAP Senate candidates would ideally have been chosen already (if not, hurry up), and they
should begin campaigning soon so as to attract votes away from the ALP and Greens.”

Stewart said voting fraud has not been an issue in the seat of Kennedy, but it has been a big issue
in many lower house electorates all around Australia and he urged KAP to get a briefing on how to thwart and detect voting fraud.

Stewart has detailed some two dozen instances of state and federal election fraud across Australia. Some notable incidents included:

– In the WA Senate election in 2013 the AEC allowed 1570 ballot papers to vanish, which changed the sixth senator from a rightwinger to a Green. Stewart said he coached the scrutineers who discovered the vanished votes;

– In the Indi (Vic.) election in September 2013 the Libs lost after the AEC corruptly “un-vanished” 500 ballot papers, having allowed an anomalously huge number of extra enrolments before the election;

– At the Epping West polling booth in 2007, 200 of John Howard’s ballot papers vanished during election day;

– in the 2010 South Australian State election, despite a huge swing against the ALP to TPP, strange 48% swings to the ALP occurred in three key marginal seats, as predicted in advance by Vic Batten, enabling the ALP to retain government;

– Ross Cameron lost Parramatta in 2004. After the election, Vic Batten’s door knockers found 8630
false enrolments on the Electoral Roll. Cameron lost the seat by 1157;

– NSW Ryde electorate 2007 a novice scrutineer Anita Bird saw hundreds of ballot papers for
Fred Nile, but the final result on the website showed only 3;

– Liberal MP lost Macquarie in 1993 by only 164 votes but doork nocking found 300 false enrolments on the Electoral Roll, so he appealed to the Court of Disputed Returns but withdrew because clumsy proceedings caused huge legal fees and an uncertain outcome.

Stewart goes on to detail scandalous Labor Party vote frauds including false enrolments, multiple voting, impersonation and Labor Party whistleblowers being assaulted and threatened with death.

“A man who had for years participated in ALP head office voter impersonation rackets spoke up and was assaulted. It was front page news on the Daily Telegraph on Oct 1^st, 1999. Those rackets have likely continued,” he said.

On election day on May 21^st 2022, for the electorate of Cowper, Stewart was a scrutineer from 4pm till 2am where the 45,557 pre-poll ballot papers from pre-poll voting centres were counted.

“I rescued ballot papers for the National Party candidate from the informal pile, and decided to do a survey of the types of informality to be used in future educational materials. As 2245 informal votes were processed, I was able to observe and write down accurately the details of a random sample of 244 informal ballot papers,” he said.

– 122 were blank, indicating either a conscious decision not to vote, or bewildered confusion how to

– 26 would have been formal under the NSW State legislation (optional preferential)

– 20 ballot papers were informal due to having two “1”s, having been filled in exactly as per the

how-to-vote leaflet of Pat Conaghan, except that the bottom number was a 1 not a 7 (below left).

– 11 ballot papers had numbers as per the how to vote card, except one square was blank, possibly erased.

– 4 ballot papers had numbers as per the HTV, except that the 6 was strongly over-written with an 8.

If these statistics (20, 11 & 4 out of 244) can be scaled up from the sample of 244 to apply to the total of 2245, then Pat Conaghan missed out on 320 votes due to pencil marks being erased or altered.

“Caz Heise, the Teal candidate, was supported by massive amounts of money and many persons coming from outside to work in the electorate for weeks beforehand. In my previous experiences, such large commitments of resources are accompanied with deliberate vote frauds of various types.”