Australian Federal Election 2010 Info and Utilities

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So, if you haven't been living under a rock or overseas, you probably know that there's an Australian Federal Election on 2010 August 21.

Here's a bunch of online utilities and instructions that are likely to be useful. Lots from the Australian Electoral Commission, but some others too.

I am deliberately not linking to any partisan or issues based organisations in this post - there are plenty of places to find that sort of thing, and I may make some other posts of that nature another time. This is a pure non-partisan informational/utility post. Please keep it so in comments also.

• AEC: Your Vote
  
• AEC: How To Vote: House of Representatives (Your Local Member)
  
• AEC: How To Vote: Senate (Your State's Representatives in the Upper House - including the fun fact that your vote is still valid if you correctly fill at least 90% of boxes below the line.)
  
• AEC: Your Vote - Practice Tool
  
• AEC: Find My Electorate
  
• AEC: I'll be overseas (or otherwise unable to vote at a booth on the day)
  
• AEC: Public Election Funding (and FYI the Current Election Funding Rate is 231.191 cents per eligible vote, so that's what your vote gives to whoever you tick as box 1).
  
• electionleaflets.org.au - Live election leaflet monitoring ( so you can report on and see what the various parties are dropping off as leaflets )
  
• BelowTheLine.org.au ( web utility for voting your Senate ticket below the line, currently has 2007 data, but will be live with 2010 data as soon as the parties lodge their preference tickets )