Has Labor won yet?

[donnashuggy]

Or isit too tight?

[lyndal1838]

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@imastawka wrote:

Postal votes had to be received by the Wednesday before polling day, Lyndal.

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Applications had to be received by Wednesday Stawka to allow the AEC to post the forms out.

They must be in the mail by Saturday.

Our votes were only posted on Thursday morning.

[imastawka]

My bad - misread something somewhere - but the 13 days is right

Submitting your postal vote

For existing applicants – your postal vote must be completed and witnessed before 6:00pm on election day. Provided you have completed your postal vote by that time, you have 13 days after the election for your postal vote to be received by the AEC.

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/pva/

[lind9650]

What a great, dishonest way to get the votes. I just wonder if this was legal and in the end we all will have to vote again?

http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/queensland-labor-behind-fake-medicare-texts-urging-...

And someone declard that the new Senate will be a circus.

I believe it already is.

Erica

[lyndal1838]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

thank you for that information. seems only when theres a close result that these things get brought to light. maybe they will have to come up with more volunteers if close results are going to be the new norm.

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It really does not have much to do with close results.

Every polling booth is responsible for it's own counting.   If a large number of voters in an electorate have gone to one particular booth then it takes a lot longer to count than a booth that has had a smaller turnout.

I used to scrutineer years ago.  One year I worked in a booth at the very end of the electorate and the counting was over by 8pm. The next year I went to another booth in the middle of the electorate and we did not finish till 11pm and then had to recount as another ballot box was found.

At any time during the counting either candidate can ask for a recount of the ballot box that the counters are working on.  I can remember one candidate asking for recounts on a regular basis....it was a nightmare and we did not finish the first count before the official cutoff time.

[lyndal1838]

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@imastawka wrote:

My bad - misread something somewhere - but the 13 days is right

Submitting your postal vote

For existing applicants – your postal vote must be completed and witnessed before 6:00pm on election day. Provided you have completed your postal vote by that time, you have 13 days after the election for your postal vote to be received by the AEC.

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/pva/

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I am not surprised that the time has blown out to 13 days....that would be Australia Posts fault.

I have never bothered to check on that timing....I have been postal voting for the best part of 25 years now and just make sure the votes are in the mail before polling day.   When I started postal voting the delivery time was within the week.

[chameleon54]

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@lind9650 wrote:

What a great, dishonest way to get the votes. I just wonder if this was legal and in the end we all will have to vote again?

http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/queensland-labor-behind-fake-medicare-texts-urging-...

And someone declard that the new Senate will be a circus.

I believe it already is.

Erica

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WOW, I thought the mediscare campaign was pretty low to start with, but this takes it to a new level. The ironic part of all of this is that Labour itself introduced the freeze on increases in bulk billing rebates to doctors. The Liberals are simply continuing with a Labour policy.

While continuing the policy at a time when there is preasure on consultation fees is regretable, for Labour to be running a massive scare campaign based on the Liberals extending one of Labours own policies, while not declaring it was Labour that introduced it, seems extremly dishonest.

No wonder voters are turning to independents in droves. 

[davidc4430]

so you felt the medicare scare campaign was pretty low?

streach your memory back to the last election when we had an oposition leader who lied about......EVERYTHING!

its an election, politicians lie to get into power. its been going on for a long long time.

everyone voting for a second time had 3 years since they last voted to decide if the govt had proven themselves honest enough to get another go in the big chair.

it wasnt decided by mediscare, thats treating voters as stupid, your not stupid are you? i know i'm not.

[bushies.girl · Accepted solution]

Remind me again  who it was said this prior to the 2013 election

"No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS"   Yeah those Libs are def an "honest" lot  

[village_person]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

 saw what happened to julia.

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Self inflicted wound.

[davidc4430]

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@village_person wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

 saw what happened to julia.

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Self inflicted wound.

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exactly, when she did the deal to remain in government i was pulling my hair out. don't do it i thought. but she/labor did and the rest is now history.

btw, i have allways voted labor, but this time i put my X next to Mr X. as i'm in Grey south oz i knew labor had no hope but the polls were showing Mr X was looming as the one who might just knock the libs off. looks like he will too, fingers crossed.

will it be a good move, dont know, but cant be worse than having a 'yes' man in the seat.