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I like Australia's preferential voting system for our House of Representatives - but the huge number of candidates who run for our Senate and the compromise this has lead to (where people do not have to set their own preferences, but can instead choose to accept whatever preference deal the party they vote for has made) has lead to a very odd situation this time around.
1 posted on 09/09/2013 4:35:54 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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This years Ballot Paper for the Senate in New South Wales. They had to introduce magnifying sheets in two states (NSW and Victoria) so people could read the things.

2 posted on 09/09/2013 4:37:37 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Sounds like the illiterate American system where ya choose the Jackass or the Elephant.


4 posted on 09/09/2013 4:43:47 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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