on 02-04-2013 08:40 PM
What Political Party will you vote for at the next election? 🙂
And why for the people that want to say why
Just remember to all the people that read the posts on here but never say a word and there is lots of you voting is ANONYMOUS and no one knows who voted for what so vote away
I wanted to put Independent and Donkey Vote as options as well but we are allowed only 5 choices
on 02-04-2013 08:42 PM
Donkey Vote
Why: Because the political threads on this board have put me off voting.
on 03-04-2013 12:22 AM
Ummmm.... Donna, taking note? B-)
on 03-04-2013 05:38 AM
I'll vote for a party with honest politicians who won't stuff this country up - it's a shame it doesn't exist.
on 03-04-2013 06:52 AM
The rumpy pumpy party ... I am all for recreative procreation 😐
http://www.sexparty.org.au/
on 03-04-2013 06:55 AM
lmao luv the 'team' photo's and bio's
Phoebe works in the Canberra office and runs the Sex Party Facebook.
Phoebe is the resident geek of the party, actually, the internet flows through her veins.
You think that's impossible? You're wrong - see Phoebe is cyborg from the future.
She's seen what the Sex Party will be in 100 years time and we suspect that's why she keeps hanging around us
Curly Merkin
is our secret political and spiritual advisor.
Previously a highly placed Tory political advisor for the forces of darkness,
Curley dares not show his real face to the party as he would be excommunicated from a thousand statutory positions and Canberra cocktail parties if he did.
But he says to say 'hi' to all the sex party members and wishes we were in a position to form government because then he'd leave them and join us.
Contact him through a séance and channel 'Young Liberals 1965'.
Ignore Andrew Peacock if he asks for a password.
on 03-04-2013 07:03 AM
because they bring up issues like this that dares to invade the premise of democracy
http://www.sexparty.org.au/News/News-and-Updates/Increased-Electoral-Deposit-Fees-To-Decimate-Minor-Parties.aspx
Date: Thursday, 07 March 2013
New laws to double the deposits lodged by candidates contesting federal elections, realistically threaten to take small parties out of the electoral process and have highlighted the fact that the ballot paper is no longer a suitable means to record votes at a federal election, according to a coalition of Australia's minor parties.
Sex Party president Fiona Patten, Australia Democrats President, Darren Churchill, Hemp Party Secretary, Graham Askey and Stable Population Party President, William Bourke said the new fees were a form of economic censorship directed at small parties by the two major parties and the timing of the legislation, only 10 weeks out from the cut-off for lodgement of party registration forms for the next federal election, was a transparent attempt to knock out their competition.
"Increasing candidate deposit fees to dissuade smaller parties from registering for an election, just to make a ballot paper more workable, is undemocratic. It represents a monstrous act of electoral fraud and deception", they said.
The coalition of minor parties claimed that a better way to limit the size of the ballot papers would be to change the method of voting rather than the economic censorship of political parties and their ideas.
"Voting on a ballot paper under the same old voting system with lead pencils, is now an outdated if the outcome is a financial impost so high that small parties can no longer afford to register.
If people can log on and do their tax returns online, why can't they cast a secure vote online, at the ballot box, these days?
Other voting systems like optional preferential voting for below-the-line voters in Senate elections could also achieve the desired effect of making voting easier and simpler rather than 'taxing' small parties off the ballot paper".
The new legislation to increase the fees passed the Senate unamended, even though the Greens, and independents tried to amend it.
"Any party who gets through the rigorous registration procedures administered by the AEC and wants to run above the line to maximise the registration of their party name, will now have to stump up an absolute minimum of $32,000 (8 x $4,000) to run a federal senate ticket", they said.
"The increases will not even be noticed by the major parties who spend millions of dollars during an election but for small parties this could now represent most of their election budget and leave them nothing for campaigning.
The major parties and even the Greens are not going to be adversely affected by this at all because they all poll above 4% and have their costs paid for by the taxpayer."
The coalition of minor parties said that the major parties had large funding bases through the union movement, big business and the environmental movement but minor parties were often funded in their early days through office bearers and volunteers mortgaging their homes and donating part of their wages to see a party through its first few elections.
"Small parties are an integral part of Australia's political landscape and if they disappear, it will shrink the gene pool of new political ideas and trends" they said.
While voting is compulsory in Australia, the group said
it should be as accessible as possible and allow for the maximum electoral choice - not the minimum.
on 03-04-2013 09:29 AM
190 views so far, 51 votes and the result so far that I expected.........
Keep voting folks 🙂
on 03-04-2013 09:44 AM
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How many ID's did you use to vote with Nero?
on 03-04-2013 10:06 AM
:^O Freddie