[LINK] Electronic Voting

[JanW]

At 01:03 PM 11/07/2016, Marghanita da Cruz you wrote:

>Something unusual about this election was that it was in the dead of winter. But it was a beautiful day in Sydney.

Yes, winter was an issue, as well as school holidays. I voted early to avoid lines in the wet Melbourne weather. Missed the sausage sizzle, but I can cook at home, so no loss there.

Some on twitter are pointing out LOTS of problems with this election, including: 
running out of voting papers
not providing voting on the day in hospitals
rumours that some overseas military weren't able to vote (I don't have particulars, but that has shown up on twitter)
wrong Senate voting papers in WA "a"? multiple? polling booths, they were Victoria ones
closed polling places where people had voted in the past

not to mention the change in the Senate voting rules of multiple numbering above and below the line, and how some in ESL voting areas used 1 to 6 on the HOUSE sheets because that is the instruction they remembered for the Senate sheet.

If you're interested, Lazarus has a plea on his facebook page to file a complaint if you encountered any anomolies. He has posted the forms there, plus advised he has filed with the AEC already.

https://www.facebook.com/senatorlazarus/posts/514565905416692


I voted in the Arizona primay electronically, but I don't think I'll be able to do that for the Federal election, at least I haven't in the past. This is either a state enabled thing or a Democratic Party enabled thing for electronic lodgement. Will find out in November.

Jan


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