Jess
It is long time since an unsuspecting talk-back radio announcer accepted
a call from me, let alone let me speak for long enough to get the
switchboard to light up.
It is really up to people like yourself who have not been tagged and
gagged to get through the talk back circuits.
Let us hear from you and a few others. The tiny group of freedom editors
are well known and never allowed on air LIVE anymore.
I wait to hear you live. Go to it Jess
Tony
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Date: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: A National Poll of the electorate.
>Antony,
>
>I understand the problem and obviously you do to, but you are bent on the
idea
>that the law is lawful and fair.
>Why don't you explain that on the ABC TV and inform the voting public as to
the
>method by which the ECQ and yourself believe that it is perfectly above
board to
>the possibility of removing ballots from the final count and then watch you
>switchboard light up like a christmas tree.
>The more people that start to understand what is going on with their
ballots
>during the counting process the more informed electorate we will have and a
real
>democracy will start to come forward.
>
>Remember that an election is not just to elect a representative but to
elect a
>representative the majority of electors agree with.
>
>I await the promotion and announcement for the scheduling of the program.
Maybe
>even a live disccusion with candidates and or a delegation of electors.
>
>Regards Jess
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Antony Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Jess Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, 05 March, 2001 11:32 AM
>Subject: Re: A National Poll of the electorate.
>
>
>If you examine the publication "Elections Queensland", published in August
>1995, and printed to provide information on voting and how the votes are
>counted, you will find a lift-out called "Optional Preferential Voting
>Tally Card".
>
>This provides a worked out and detailed tally sheet for an election showing
>exactly what happens under optional preferential voting. This includes the
>setting aside of exhausted votes, and the fall in the number of votes
>required for a majority to be achieved.
>
>Exhausted preferences have been counted this way now at 4 Queensland
>elections. They have been counted that way at 6 NSW elections. They are
>counted that way in Western Australian elections in the special cases that
>allow preferences to be exhausted.
>
>Exhausted preferences in the proportional representations systems in
>Tasmania and the ACT are also set aside as exhausted and do not affect the
>election of the final candidates after preferences. The same applies to the
>special category of Senate votes that exhaust.
>
>In other words, the count has been conducted according to the electoral
>act. It has been conducted according to the education material provided on
>how optional preferential counting works. It has been conducted according
>to the method used everywhere else in Australia.
>
>The position where exhausted preferences somehow prevent an election being
>decided has NEVER existed in Australia. The "failed election" provision of
>the Commonwealth Electoral Act has no relevance to optional preferential
>voting, and anyway, is only a provision to provide an automatic re-election
>where ballot papers are missing, without the need for a Court of Disputed
>Returns challenge.
>
>If you want to change the law, win seats in parliament and change the law.
>But you will not re-interpet the law as it has applied exactly as it was
>meant to apply. If you have a problem with that, win seats in parliament to
>change the law. That's what elections are about.
>
>Antony Green
>
>
>
>
>
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