greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 6
th, 2025 at 7:55pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 6
th, 2025 at 7:35pm:
Baronvonrort wrote on Mar 6
th, 2025 at 7:17pm:
Quote:The West Australian
@westaustralian
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of new West Australians sworn in as part of Tony Burke’s national pre-election citizenship drive will be eligible to vote in Saturday’s State election, despite not being citizens when the roll closed last month.
https://x.com/westaustralian/status/1897047228499275977 Why are Labor allowing them to vote when they weren't on electoral rolls when they closed?
Labor?

Political parties don't decide who can vote - the Western Australian Electoral Commission does.
It's completely out of Labor's hands.
You guys didn't realise this?
FFS, you get dumber every day
Bollocks, creep, bollocks. You are the dumb bellend, once again.
Thousands of new West Australians sworn in as part of Tony Burke’s national pre-election citizenship drive will be eligible to vote in Saturday’s State election, despite not being citizens when the roll closed last month.
Under reforms passed by State Labor in 2023, voters are now able to enrol at the polling place, and cast a provisional ballot in the election, which will be counted once their enrolment has been processed.While the electoral roll was closed to new voters on February 13 — a standard procedure during elections — the reforms offer a ballot to those who were not able to organise their enrolment, or were not citizens at the time.
A Home Affairs spokesperson said in the past two weeks, since the roll was closed, 3586 people were conferred with Australian citizenship in WA.
It comes after Mr Burke, the Federal Immigration Minister, faced criticism for swearing in thousands of new Australians on the cusp of a Federal poll, due before May 17.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-election-2025-tony-burkes-thousands-of-new-wa-...