Buy My "Yes" Vote

[icyfroth]

Warnings have been issued to the eBay seller trying to flog their say in the same-sex marriage postal survey for $1500.

 

A Sydneysider who is selling their ballot paper on the same-sex marriage postal survey has been warned they face possible jail time or a $2000 fine, with an independent senator saying it's making a mockery of the exercise.

The eBay listing, which has been taken down, was published on September 18 and titled, Buy My Vote.

The bid started at $1500.

"What is this plebiscite worth to you", the seller writes in the ad description.

"The reason I'm selling my vote is because either way I don't care, but thought there are people who do."

The seller promises part of the proceeds of the auction will go to help kids battling cancer.

The Australian Bueau Of Statistics, which is conducting the survey, told SBS World News it considers any submission of a survey response that's been bought or sold a criminal offence.

The offence against the Census and Statistics Act 1905 carries a maximum penalty of $2,100. The Criminal Code offence carries a maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment,” a spokesman said.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/08/same-sex-marriage-sydneysider-slammed-hawking-vote-eba...

No way this plebiscite is going to truly reflect the opinion of the general public. It's going to be so skewed.

[tasfleur]

[imastawka]

Keeping on-topic -

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/same-sex-marriage-voting-forms-%E2%80%98auctioned-off-online...

[davidc4430]

can't find any on ebay

[davidc4430]

guess i'll have to print my own

[davidc4430]

SSM postal surveys left out in the rain, damaged at Canberra apartments

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/same-sex-marriage-postal-surveys-left-out-in-the-rain/8952156

yup, everything going as planned mr turnbull

[chameleon54]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

SSM postal surveys left out in the rain, damaged at Canberra apartments

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/same-sex-marriage-postal-surveys-left-out-in-the-rain/8952156

yup, everything going as planned mr turnbull

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And if little Billy was prime minister, Australia Post would deliver everything on time, no-one would ever tamper or steal mail from appartment blocks and everyone would live happily ever after..........

[bushies.girl]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

SSM postal surveys left out in the rain, damaged at Canberra apartments

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/same-sex-marriage-postal-surveys-left-out-in-the-rain/8952156

yup, everything going as planned mr turnbull

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And if little Billy was prime minister, Australia Post would deliver everything on time, no-one would ever tamper or steal mail from appartment blocks and everyone would live happily ever after..........

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'n the taxpayers wouldnt have needed to fork out 122 million $, 'cause he would have had the backbone to introduce a ss marriage bill 

or do you mean the other "little Billy?" lol

[davidc4430]

it was a bad idea from the begining

did no one think about the things that could go wrong?

fancy that, letters removed from letter boxes (maybe) and left in the rain.

i seem to remember during the last census similar stories.

and if letters for the vote can so easily be removed from boxes they could also be taken, filled in and posted couldnt they....by either side of the argument.

just showing this postal vote/survey is useless. the figures cant be trusted.

[davidc4430]

Same-sex marriage No campaign launches; 'Vote No' sprawled in Sydney skies

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-17/same-sex-marriage-survey-no-campaign-launched/8954368

just watched the new vote NO tv ad,

they seem to be saying if you vote NO this whole 'GAY' thing will just "GO AWAY"

talk about confused about what the vote will do.

so i'm just wondering if i vote NO will drug dealers stop selling drugs?

[johcaschro]

". . . so i'm just wondering if i vote NO will drug dealers stop selling drugs?"

Oh come on, you don't want to be seen as being a Nancy boy, do you? 😉

(the best and only way to stop drug dealers selling drugs is to make it un-profitable for them, and that's best done by the govt legalising, regulating, taxing those drugs and using the money saved by abolishing the policing to fund rehab and other related medical services.) Let's Just say No to our drug-dealer incentivisation laws as they stand.

The No voters on this SSM issue are either mis-informed or intentionally evil in my opinion, as out of either ignorance or malice they are denying the right to the pursuit of freedoms and happiness to members of a certain section of our society on an issue which does not personally affect them, whatever the outcome.

Just say Yes? How much is a clear conscience worth?