Has Labor won yet?

[donnashuggy]

Or isit too tight?

[imastawka]

Good on her, then - should be more of it

[chameleon54]

My wife is blind and the way we handle voting is as follows.

I go into the pre polling booth a few days before voting is due  and vote myself. This is really a reconicense where I work out where we have to go and check out what candidates are on offer. When I get home I discuss the options with the wife, working out which of the two majors will get her preferences once her votes work there way through the minor parties she usually puts first.  I then take her in to vote before the official day. The scrutineers are always discreet once they realise the wife is blind and just let us do what we need to without any questions or fuss. 

This works much better than just lobbing up on voting day.

[lyndal1838]

Yes, it would have been very easy for her to opt out but she was born in an era (1909) when people believed in taking their responsibilities seriously.   She used to listen to all the election gumpf on the radio and could hold an intelligent conversation on what she thought about the policies.   As she said..."if I don't vote I have no right to complain about the government that we get."

As far as I know she voted right up till the last election before she died at 97....now that is dedication to duty.

[***super_nova***]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are complaining about.

You received the application form from the candidate's office and returned it.  They forwarded it to the AEC as requested.

Why are you upset?

There is nothing stopping you applying direct to the AEC.....nothing is forcing you to let either party do it for you.  You can now apply for postal voting online which is what I did.

The application was filled in on Sunday and I received the papers on the following Tuesday.

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I was planning to do the postal vote application on line, but had lot on my plate and computer problems,so when the papers arrived with printed pre paid envelope, I just posted it.  I am quite sure the papers arrived in an envelope that was marked AEC and not LNP, if it came from the LNP, I would have assumed it was their advertising and would not have even opened the envelope.  

The envelope to send the application was addressed to AEC, with PO box number, therefore it is quite reasonable to assume it was AEC box.    BUT the PO box number obviously was not AEC.  That is what I object to.  There was never any suggestion that I am sending my filled form to LNP with request to forward it to AEC.  Obviously, getting lists of people who do the postal vote and bombarding them with their how to vote cards, and LNP propaganda, would be advantageous for them, or they would not do it.  

[lyndal1838]

We receive all the usual advertising and postal vote applications from both parties....probably because we have been registered for postal voting for the best part of 25 years. Long before computers were around and it could be done online.

The actual application forms would be addressed to the AEC but the return addressed envelope would be to the office of the candidate who sent it to you.  I personally cannot see the problem...they have all your details anyway to have sent the forms to you in the first place.

The actual voting forms would come from the AEC and be returned to them too.

My objection with the AEC is the fact that you have to fill in personal details on the outside of the envelope in which you put the completed forms.....your details, including signature, are out there fro the world to see.

I just put both our envelopes in another envelope and address them to the AEC.....rather safer than what the AEC thinks is safe.

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[davidc4430]

its all about trust, there was a time when most of us had no problems filling out all sorts of forms, like warrantee cards that were included with electrical items, we would put our address, name, signature ect on a card stick a stamp on it and post it. anyone seeing that card would see our details.

but these days our information has become a type of currency, so we no longer just blindly put our info out there.

i agree there should be a pre addressed envolope with your preelection voting papers addressed to the AEC not to anyone else.

sorry but they days of trusting your local member has gone the way of the dodo

[lyndal1838]

David, the voting papers are addressed to the AEC but the problem is that the back of the envelope has to have your name, address, signature and secret question (with answer).  That is why I have always put our completed envelopes in another one and written the address on it.

The local member has nothing whatsoever to do with the voting papers.  They only forward the applications to postal vote to the AEC if a voter asks for this service.....there is no trust to be broken.

[lind9650]

SOLDIERS MISSED VOTING Hundreds of soldiers missed the chance to have their say in the election whil...

That's how organized this election was.

A very long campain with lousy preparations.

Erica

[village_person]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

sorry but they days of trusting your local member has gone the way of the dodo

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Amen to that david4430. I view my local member as no more than a parasite. He has had the pockets cut from his suites because he can enjoy a free ride courtesy of the taxpayer, no need to carry a wallet. Phone allowance, travel allowance, stamp allowance, free phone, free laptop, subsidised dining (A four-course meal at Parliament House dining rooms costs just $37.40 compared with more than $100 for the same dishes at similarly styled top-end restaurants), o/seas fact-finding-missions, a teddy bear to cuddle plus a very generous o/nite allowance when wrenched away from family and loved ones, and much more. 

They are parasites and nothing else.

[davidc4430]

i know bill has conceded but i'm sure a full recount would change the result....anyone with me?