Quick Hit: How I'll Be Voting 2010
2010-Aug-18, Wednesday 13:40![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thorfinnI'm in Higgins: http://www.aec.gov.au/election/vic/higgins.htm
We appear to have a Greens house of reps candidate, so my $2.31 worth of primary vote will be heading to them. Then in order, Independent I.T. Nerd, Blind Young Labor Guy, Liberal Ms I'm Not Costello Honestly, and Family First Goes Last.
For the Victorian Senate, I started with the Australian Sex Party ticket, and played with it until it made me happy...
https://www.belowtheline.org.au/editor.html#vic-GFEDC76543fhjlnokmTSRpqVUabcQPvwxYXON0ZMJLK21BWAzydegirstuIH
Thus, my $2.31 primary senate vote goes to the Australian Sex Party - who are standing up against pretty much everything that I consider very wrong with what's going on in Australian Politics.
The rest of the ticket is scattered around issues parties, and preference flow will no doubt primarily wind up landing on Labor in the middle of my ticket. I've put Conroy towards the bottom of the ticket, but not last.
The switch-over point on my ticket (where I go from numbering in group ticket order because I'm "for", instead of numbering upside down because I'm "against") is at the Lib/Nat coalition ticket, starting at number 36.
Pretty much everyone below that point, including the Lib/Nat coalition, are mostly religious nut cases of one stripe or another that wish to do things that are bad for me and my friends. I have absolutely nothing against religious people, but the groups in politics are truly nut cases who wish to do harm to me and my friends.
We appear to have a Greens house of reps candidate, so my $2.31 worth of primary vote will be heading to them. Then in order, Independent I.T. Nerd, Blind Young Labor Guy, Liberal Ms I'm Not Costello Honestly, and Family First Goes Last.
For the Victorian Senate, I started with the Australian Sex Party ticket, and played with it until it made me happy...
;-) So my ticket looks like:https://www.belowtheline.org.au/editor.html#vic-GFEDC76543fhjlnokmTSRpqVUabcQPvwxYXON0ZMJLK21BWAzydegirstuIH
Thus, my $2.31 primary senate vote goes to the Australian Sex Party - who are standing up against pretty much everything that I consider very wrong with what's going on in Australian Politics.
The rest of the ticket is scattered around issues parties, and preference flow will no doubt primarily wind up landing on Labor in the middle of my ticket. I've put Conroy towards the bottom of the ticket, but not last.
The switch-over point on my ticket (where I go from numbering in group ticket order because I'm "for", instead of numbering upside down because I'm "against") is at the Lib/Nat coalition ticket, starting at number 36.
Pretty much everyone below that point, including the Lib/Nat coalition, are mostly religious nut cases of one stripe or another that wish to do things that are bad for me and my friends. I have absolutely nothing against religious people, but the groups in politics are truly nut cases who wish to do harm to me and my friends.
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Date: 2010-08-19 00:27 (UTC)In fact, our Senate often is not controlled by any of the major parties.
In fact one of the "major parties" isn't a party - it's a coalition between the Liberal Party (right wing/conservative/libertarian, and the National Party (farmers).
It's rare for a minor party to win a House of Representatives seat, but it can and does happen, and we can in fact get independents (non party affiliated) winning seats in both houses on occasion too. Right now the Greens have a very strong Senate presence, and we have a few independent Senators from around the country.
The "majors" pay a lot of attention to how the voting preferences fall - because most of the minor parties are "issues" parties, focused around one or another issue or group of issues.
If one of those issues parties or an independent gets into the Senate, the government is going to have to negotiate with those senators to pass any legislation. So it really matters, down here. :-) Voting minors is the correct voter strategy when you have preferential voting.