The Government has now ignored the Joint Standing Committee, and hastily introduced the ill-conceived Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016. In essence this Bill allows for partial optional preferential voting above the line but continues virtually full preferential voting below the line. This means that if voters vote above the line, they have to accept the order within not only their party or group of choice, but also for at least five other groups. This means they would continue to find their votes controlled by the political parties and have no say in who they wanted within these parties and groups. Voters will still not be any better off.
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016
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Effective Voting 