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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.

The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.

One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.

I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.

The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.

When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I stupidly only numbered 5 instead of 6 above the line in the Senate. Is my vote counted?

Even if I numbered 6, I risked exhausting my vote since I did not number Lab or Lib anywhere. One really should number as many as possible.

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Dan Teehan talks like he's very disappointed with his 2nd grade class lol

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