1900

[catsnknots]

That is how many votes one party apparently got to win a Senate seat and possibly be able to decide on yours and my future. 

29% of the votes is all one sitting mp  got yet he will now win his seat.... 

Now I really do not mind anyone winning a seat... congratulations... BUT I feel there is a major flaw in the system when not only does 1900 votes gets you a seat at the major decision making table and just over 1/4 of the votes wins you a seat when the other person gets over 40% of the votes. 

Is it time we change to first past the post or is this preferential system a good thing and allows micro parties to have a say? 

[azureline**]

Lurker you have to admit it was laughable...........

[lightningdance]

I agree, pity for the Labor party.

[izabsmiling]

I've been referred to as Labor ...while I have never voted more than once in any election (it is a crime) ...I did have a joke when I was asked if I had voted before in that Election .I jokingly said "No .. this time it is tempting" 

[lakeland27]

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@lightningdance wrote:

Full electoral reform was discussed before the election by BOTH parties. Also the computerisation of voting is being looked at to stop the labor practice of multiple voting.

Labor won't like this because the preference deals got many of their failed MP's over the line at the expense of the voters wishes. They won't like it because of the back room deals with the toxic Greens who saved many of them.

We will be bombarded with one eyed divisive comment on here because the left are bitter in defeat &  have no grace in their remarks. One only has to look to the quite churlish remark Rudd made in his concession speech.

Liberal/National party has been given a stonking mandate to govern by the majority of the voters but the bitter lemons of Labor served up  is what will happen.

They will get apoplectic before they can see the light on the hill again, if ever.

We will be witness to the writhing torturous bloodletting or will we? will they hide it just like they hid the chaos & dysfunction of KRudd until they could take no more? no? because they rewarded him AGAIN with a 2nd prime ministership, they foisted him on  Australia AGAIN.

One wonders just what kind of moral failure, loss of ethical core beliefs drove them to do this again knowing how much they loathed him & how poisonous he was to the public the 1st time round.

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you make things up. or repeat things others have made up.

some examples of the porkies in your post that are verifiable would be welcome. its pretty simple, a lot of voters preferred anyone at all over abbott/rudd. its directly proportional.

[polksaladallie]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

I've been referred to as Labor ...while I have never voted more than once in any election (it is a crime) ...I did have a joke when I was asked if I had voted before in that Election .I jokingly said "No .. this time it is tempting" 

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If I am asked that question, I always say "I never answer silly questions".

[spotweldersfriend]

Electoral fraud too eh? Conservatives-kooky one day,just plain nuts the next.

[freshwater-2]

Even Antony Green is disturbed by the makeup of the new Senate...."micro parties going in with their own individual egos".

Experienced members trying to deal with inexperienced total nongs is how I read this.

[azureline**]

I was asked had I voted anyplace else, I said "no,once is enough"

"you are only entitled to one"

[topsidesoul]

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@lightningdance wrote:

We will be bombarded with one eyed divisive comment on here because the left are bitter in defeat &  have no grace in their remarks. One only has to look to the quite churlish remark Rudd made in his concession speech.

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As opposed to one eyed divise comments by people who are bitter in victory.

It has happened people, deal with it for four years.

Be sure to follow the leads of posters during the previous government and point out the flaws with newspaper links and cut and pastes.

Be sure to disrespect the current PM in the same way certain posters and certain people  in the public eye  disrespected the former two.

[azureline**]

It takes a certain type of person to behave like that, better to take the high moral ground and behave in a more acceptable manner, imo.