Who Im gunna vote for

[am Bays]

As for the senate, well I usually draw a monster-sized penis on the monster-sized ballot paper, but this year I just left it blank.

I drew a vulva once just to let the politicians know what I thought about them.

*chuckle*

Like any subject of your derision was there scrutineering or counting the votes. The only persons to witness your "maturity" were some poor uni-sudents helping out the political party of their choice or some lowly election officials....

probably thought your artwork was an apt description of the artist.

[redandblack]

Just got back from handing out pamphlets at Boothby area, the feeling is about 50/50 with ppl grabbing pamphlets but alot asked for Greens, so they might be the roughy in area. Donkey votes to Ray Mcgee.

As a dyed-in-the-wool informal voter I changed my line slightly this year. I gave Ray McGhee #1, then assigned #8 to each of the remaining 7 candidates. This should see a first-preference vote recorded to Ray McGhee but become informal when going to preferences. The poor bugger never had a hope in hell of winning, but I've enjoyed his journalism for long enough that I think it would be cool to see him get a high "cult following" vote. So he gets the nihilists as well as the donkeys.

As for the senate, well I usually draw a monster-sized penis on the monster-sized ballot paper, but this year I just left it blank.

The good news, Pseudo, is that you've kept your tradition of voting informal intact.

The bad news is that it won't be registered at any time as a vote for Ray Mcghee.

[Mickyj]

Wedgie I tried to answer your PM not sure if it got through or not.

I watched the count(I swore I would not ) on ABC gee they got pissed off with the crowd.I've been watching wrestling to long was waiting for Howard sucks chants and this is awesome chants .

Well done Rudd a new government was needed for a change.

[TroyGFC]

House of Representatives Updated: 25/11/2007 12:01:39 PM
PARTY REPRESENTATION
Download these results in Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values format [1 KB] Help and Notes Refresh
Party Representation - Summary of Divisions Won Party NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS ACT NT Total Divisions Won
This Election Last Election
Liberal 14 12 7 10 4 0 0 0 47 74
Australian Labor Party 28 21 15 4 6 5 2 2 83 60
The Greens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Nationals 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 12
Family First 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Democrats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
One Nation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CDP Christian Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Citizens Electoral Council 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CLP - The Territory Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Socialist Alliance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Fishing Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DLP - Democratic Labor Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Climate Change Coalition 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Liberty and Democracy Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Custodial Parents Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Socialist Equality Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
What Women Want (Australia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Independent 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Non Affiliated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DOUBTFUL 2 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 9 0
TOTAL 49 37 29 15 11 5 2 2 150 150
TURNOUT % 74.54 72.97 73.04 75.58 79.17 81.29 73.84 67.43 74.42

[TroyGFC]

mmmm that didn't format as planned!! Bolded part is seats won verses last election .

[Pseudo]

As a dyed-in-the-wool informal voter I changed my line slightly this year. I gave Ray McGhee #1, then assigned #8 to each of the remaining 7 candidates. This should see a first-preference vote recorded to Ray McGhee but become informal when going to preferences.

[...]

The good news, Pseudo, is that you've kept your tradition of voting informal intact.

The bad news is that it won't be registered at any time as a vote for Ray Mcghee.

My understanding was that a vote was considered to be formal for as long as it adhered to the unique 1-2-3-...-N numbering format. At any point in which the sequence of cardinal numbers was broken, the vote then became informal.

Quoting Albert Langer in the Australian, 13/Jan 1996:
"At the hearing last October the Solicitor-General for the Commonwealth agreed that s.329a of the Electoral Act does not prohibit encouraging voters not to fill in a ballot paper at all, and also agreed that votes such as "1, 2, 2, 2" or "1, 2, 3, 3" will be counted as formal votes."

Quoting Judy Hale in the same issue:
"HAVING been a candidate in all three levels of government, and scrutineered many times, I have to say that Jason Job (Letters, 2/1) is right and Graeme Orr (Letters, 5/1) is wrong. When there was a clearly identifiable first choice on a ballot paper, that was duly counted. However, if the first choice was eliminated the vote went no further.
Election material clearly states that a number must be placed in every box - not a number ascending in order. Following on, if you only want to support, say, two out of five candidates then your ballot paper will be marked 1, 2, 3, 3, 3."

I am happy to be proven wrong, however. I do not overly care whether or not Ray McGhee actually got my vote.

[redandblack]

Well Pseudo, that's the most intelligent reply I've had to a post yet, I think (except when I post two in a row, of course )

I'm happy to concede on that point. Thanks for educating me.

By the way, the election result was a big victory for 2 much-maligned predictors.

1 Malcolm Mackerras, who predicted the result and close to the margin as far back as last year.

2 Morgan Poll, comfortably the closest opinion poll to the result.

It was also a victory for the psephological bloggers over the political journalists, by a knockout.

[Psyber]

It appears that on the other side of the world the pendulum is swinging the other way!

Brown, who took over from Tony Blair in June after a decade as Chancellor overseeing steady economic growth, has had to grapple with a banking debacle and Britain's biggest identity fraud crisis.

Two months ago, his Labour Party enjoyed a 12 percentage point lead over the Conservatives on the economy.

On Sunday, that was wiped out in a poll published by the News of the World newspaper, which showed them running neck and neck on 38 percent.

The poll gave Conservative leader David Cameron an 8 percentage point lead over the prime minister -- he was on 46 percent compared with 38 percent for Brown.

It was the latest in a series of gloomy poll findings for Brown who a few months ago contemplated calling a snap election after a honeymoon start to his premiership with appreciative voters.

[redden whites]

It appears that on the other side of the world the pendulum is swinging the other way!

Brown, who took over from Tony Blair in June after a decade as Chancellor overseeing steady economic growth, has had to grapple with a banking debacle and Britain's biggest identity fraud crisis.

Two months ago, his Labour Party enjoyed a 12 percentage point lead over the Conservatives on the economy.

On Sunday, that was wiped out in a poll published by the News of the World newspaper, which showed them running neck and neck on 38 percent.

The poll gave Conservative leader David Cameron an 8 percentage point lead over the prime minister -- he was on 46 percent compared with 38 percent for Brown.

It was the latest in a series of gloomy poll findings for Brown who a few months ago contemplated calling a snap election after a honeymoon start to his premiership with appreciative voters.

News of the world......highly credible

[Psyber]

It appears that on the other side of the world the pendulum is swinging the other way!

Brown, who took over from Tony Blair in June after a decade as Chancellor overseeing steady economic growth, has had to grapple with a banking debacle and Britain's biggest identity fraud crisis.

Two months ago, his Labour Party enjoyed a 12 percentage point lead over the Conservatives on the economy.

On Sunday, that was wiped out in a poll published by the News of the World newspaper, which showed them running neck and neck on 38 percent.

The poll gave Conservative leader David Cameron an 8 percentage point lead over the prime minister -- he was on 46 percent compared with 38 percent for Brown.

It was the latest in a series of gloomy poll findings for Brown who a few months ago contemplated calling a snap election after a honeymoon start to his premiership with appreciative voters.

News of the world......highly credible

The same report was in The Spectator about 2 weeks ago, but then that's a "right wing rag " is it not?

Lets face it there is a pendulum effect, and is is not surprising theirs is not in phase with ours. Of course, perhaps they've heard I'm coming and are getting ready.