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mellie

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How will you vote today?
Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:24am

For the House of Representatives (green form)

Or...

For The Senate (white form)

I will be voting for the senate ,(White form).... given I only like three candidates out of the 9 representatives in my electorate.

The three I like are as follows...

1: MARKUS, Louise libs

2: BATES, John Australia First Party

3: TREMETHICK, Terry Carers Alliance

(I wish One Nation were among the HOR)

But unfortunately, this is where it ends for me, I just cant bare the thought of preferencing the green-labia party last even...ie number 7 or 8.

So...I shall be voting for the senate, above the line.

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/nsw/macquarie.htm

I have my group/party chosen, but what group/party do you think I would select in accordance with my above 3 house of representative candidates?

....I like both Libs and Nats...

Just remember guys, you don't have to fill in that green form, choose the white one so the bastards don't acquire your preferences by proxy... You can select the white form, and simply place a (1) above the line for the party/group of your choice...and do away with all those other crappy novel parties you may have never even heard of, much less care about.

Ie..The Australian toffee Apple party, or the Australian bogan party....

I mean....just save yourself the bother of dignifying these lunatics with the effort of your having been forced to preference what doesn't deserve to be.

http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_vote/Voting_Senate.htm

... Because everyone's an expert at their ballot box on voting day... Well, should be!

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:12am Cyberman wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:11am: I'll be too busy adjusting my sniper gear to vote hahahaha.... not on account of my selections I hope... Altona sounds like a nice place for a picnic, with a finderscope...
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Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:22am

To perform your preferences in learned order is the ultimate in democracy. I wish that I could be so democratic.
For those who have worked out an order of preference, I admire you for being able to choose.
I can't choose an order, I hardly even want Gillard in for what she's shown. But I'll choose and hope that she will show something. The balance will be decided by a raving queen (not that there's anything wrong with that), so no big deal.
In a way, I would like Abbott to get in so that there is a crushable entity involved.
I don't think that Julia can be crushed, and I don't think that she will come forward with the "great female hope" policy either.
The only female policy that I know is to keep the blokes working as hard as possible for as long as possible, ie: until they drop dead.
Her unionist thing has fallen by the wayside of late. It's all about getting the phony government budget in surplus.
My main objective, as usual, is to avoid a fine. What's yours?

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Reply #4 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:30am

My objective is to leave the polls feeling not too disappointed.

Libs are our only hope of stopping the Greenlabor coalition.

I think we will wing it in.

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To perform your preferences in learned order is the ultimate in democracy. I wish that I could be so democratic.

Any other election than this one, and I'd probably give it my best shot.

Ie...If I knew Libs were going to win by a mile, I'd do what I could for some of the smaller party's.

Though due to it being so cut-throat, I'm inclined to think every precious vote counts, so will be making sure mine goes to the coalition, being more democratic than Labor or Greens.

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Reply #5 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:19pm

My vote today reflected my overall dissatisfaction with our Australian electoral /ballot system, was a protest vote to my not being happy with the house of representative preference system itself.

Was my way of saying, yes Liberal, I would like you to win THIS ELECTION, (hence I voted Libs/Nats on the senate form)...but I would like there to be a change to the how-to-vote preference system itself. Eg, If I want to vote for Liberals Markus MP...then why should I have to preference all or any other candidates 'offered' on the ballot form, from one to nine if I only happen to like a couple of them?

It's a bit like listing 9 incurable diseases, and being expected to choose what you might like to die from first.

We should be allowed to select as many or as few representatives we please..

So, I drew a line in pen right down the middle of my green ballot form today, due to our ballot box bully insisting I put it in the box...stamped with "VOTE GREENS" on the top of it. No thanks.

I like my Liberal MP, though didn't like all of her preferences,which she probably doesn't even like herself.

Time we all stopped voting like mushrooms!!!

..Vote the way you want to, not how they tell you you should vote.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #6 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:21pm No vote for me today, I voted earlier this year in the UK elections. I am a mere interested Australian by-stander today.
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #7 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:26pm Just as a giggle... On the White Paper I did happen to notice there was a "Climate Sceptics Party"... Somehow, I don't see them getting a lot of votes... Of course, single issue parties never do...
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #8 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:27pm gizmo_2655 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:26pm: Just as a giggle... On the White Paper I did happen to notice there was a "Climate Sceptics Party"... Somehow, I don't see them getting a lot of votes... Of course, single issue parties never do... How are the Sex Party polling?
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Re: How will you vote today?
Reply #9 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:27pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:21pm:

No vote for me today, I voted earlier this year in the UK elections.

I am a mere interested Australian by-stander today.

I was only saying this morning to my family that should Labor get in, we should all migrate to the UK!!

I have had it up to the back teeth with our nations flawed politics.

Angry

Not good enough!

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Reply #10 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:29pm

mellie wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:27pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:21pm:

No vote for me today, I voted earlier this year in the UK elections.

I am a mere interested Australian by-stander today.

I was only saying this morning to my family that should Labor get in, we should all migrate to the UK!!

I have had it up to the back teeth with our nations flawed politics.

Angry

Not good enough!

Not so sure about that Mellie.
I'd hold off for a bit, we have some significant issues cleaning up the debt left by a decade of Labour rule.

VAT up to 20%.
New high income tax band.

A lot of my friends in Finance say jobs are scarce in and around London.
We have a significant Muslim problem still.

A lot to sort out at home at the moment!!

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Reply #11 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:33pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:26pm:

Just as a giggle...
On the White Paper I did happen to notice there was a "Climate Sceptics Party"...

Somehow, I don't see them getting a lot of votes...

Of course, single issue parties never do...

Actually, I would be inclined to preference this sort of party myself, if our preference system were different.

Being an AGW- climate sceptic myself.

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Reply #13 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:47pm

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A lot of my friends in Finance say jobs are scarce in and around London.
We have a significant Muslim problem still.

Well, as soon as they 'manage' this problem, then I'll be happy to move there...the rate we are going.

Honestly, If we are forced to wake up to a PM Gillard tomorrow morning, this country is in deep strife.

I had to put up with a neurotic Labor voter standing behind me trying to convert me in the line down at the poll this morning, she was about 55, reeked of Chloe perfume, and will probably go home and burn a few more bras if Gillard doesn't get in.

Which she wont!

I'm a dreadful woman, on the way in when a greens campaigner offered me her how to vote greens form, I told her I was not in favour of compulsory student union fees, so no thank you.

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I was polite, and quietly spoken, just made it clear why I wasn't interested in voting green.

I mean, if we don't tell them, how will they ever know why they remain a preference-brokering party noone takes seriously enough to run the country?

Bobs Browns retiring, will be leaving politics in 2013 apparently.

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Re: How will you vote today?
Reply #14 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:49pm

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:35pm:

announcing that you're a climate skeptic without probably even understanding the rudimentary scientific foundation of climate science

jeez louise

Note the difference between an (AGW climate-change) sceptic, and a denialist.

I don't deny it exists, just would like a little more 'independent' research.

Fair enough?

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Vanessa Senior Member Offline Ranga Rock Chick Posts: 301 Somewhere In The Real World Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #15 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:56pm I voted Labor in the lower and Green in the Senate. I am proud of my vote today.
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it_is_the_light Gold Member Offline Christ Light Posts: 41434 The Pyramid of LIGHT Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #16 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:58pm i voted green - : )
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Reply #17 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:05pm

[quote author=it_is_the_light link=1282317893/15#16 date=1282363139]i voted green - : )[/quote]

Well done!

I actually spent a good fifteen minutes after work walking around, trying to find the polling place. It was at the Uniting Church, and do you think I could find it?
After awhile, I thought I'd go home and look it up on a map. Then when I walked down my street, I realised something - I actually live right next door to the Uniting Church.

Major facepalm right there.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #18 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:07pm Vanessa wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:56pm: I voted Labor in the lower and Green in the Senate. I am proud of my vote today. What an awful vote. I would vote Liberals in both with possibly Family First or One Nation as supporting.
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Reply #19 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:09pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:07pm:

Vanessa wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 1:56pm:

I voted Labor in the lower and Green in the Senate.

I am proud of my vote today.

What an awful vote.
I would vote Liberals in both with possibly Family First or One Nation as supporting.

I am going to have to laugh at this because I assume you are joking, or stoned to hold such an opinion.

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Cyberman Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 391	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #20 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:14pm Voted Greens and Labor last for everything
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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #21 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:23pm Cyberman wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:14pm: Voted Greens and Labor last for everything So, you voted Labor last by Greens proxy?
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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #23 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:25pm [quote author=it_is_the_light link=1282317893/15#16 date=1282363139]i voted green - : )[/quote] Naturally.... 8-)
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Please delete Gold Member Offline Please delete this smacking PROFILE Posts: 2936	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #24 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:26pm Voted greens in the HOR in my safe blue ribbon LIBERAL seat. Voted Labor in the senate, in the hope that even if they lose, they'll be able to shaft Abbott in the same way the libs shafted Rudd - in the senate.
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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #25 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:28pm Cyberman wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:24pm: Cyberman wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 2:14pm: Voted Greens and Labor last for everything Sorry, I jumped the gun... .....as for myself, I couldn't even bare the thought of having voted them last even. wince
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MJD New Member Offline Posts: 8 On The Right Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #26 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 4:17pm Voted LNP in the House of Representatives Endured the writer's cramp of a below the line vote in the senate with, naturally, first preferences going to the LNP.
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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #27 - Aug 21^st, 2010 at 4:20pm MJD wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 4:17pm: Voted LNP in the House of Representatives Endured the writer's cramp of a below the line vote in the senate with, naturally, first preferences going to the LNP. Welcome to Ozpolitic MJD, you sound like an astute voter, ... I look forward to reading more of your posts.
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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #28 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 11:56am Read through this thread, if you would like to see how I voted!
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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #29 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 12:22pm On the senate paper, I drew a big penis, and wrote 'all of 'em can suck on this' On the other one I drew a bum with a poo coming out of it and wrote 'all of 'em are a load of poo'. Yes, I know it was childish, but I'm in a safe seat, so it wouldn't have made any difference, and besides, everything I wrote is true.
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Reply #30 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 12:26pm

... wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 12:22pm:

On the senate paper, I drew a big penis, and wrote 'all of 'em can suck on this'

On the other one I drew a bum with a poo coming out of it and wrote 'all of 'em are a load of poo'.

Yes, I know it was childish, but I'm in a safe seat, so it wouldn't have made any difference, and besides, everything I wrote is true.

I super-glued hand-made laminated cards re- Labors and greens flawed policies in the booths...this and had some friends to do likewise.

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Not sure if this constitutes for ballot-box vandalism, but I'll happily accept a fine if this is the case.

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: How will you vote today? Reply #31 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 12:28pm I mean, they should thank me, ... thank me for advertising their 'fantastic' policies.. I am a thoughtful person, always happy to assist wherever possible.
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