[LINK] How the parties trick you into handing over personal information

[Andy Farkas]

It seems the political parties are harvesting personal information using
a pretty deceptive method of tricking you with postal votes:

  <http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=389752>

And to top it off:

"The Rudd Labor government tried to change the rules in 2010, proposing
that forms had to be returned to the AEC directly and prohibiting written
material (i.e. political advertising) being sent alongside the forms. The
Coalition opposed those changes, and watered-down amendments were passed
instead."

-andyf