Conspiracy Theories - The new Utterly Ridiculous Thread or is it?

[4bee]

I should be OK. My wife says that I have to last until tomorrow night so I can mow the weeds and do the edges and what she says goes...

She is impetuous & said she certainly will not wait that long. Decisions. Decisions, always bloody decisions these days.

[RANDLOVER]

I never really thought about this before, until I was watching a doco on Russia the other night, and they found the pens used at polling booths were filled with erasable ink, whereas the place I voted in for the Fed election had pencils!

[BradC]

That's an interesting thought. I always take a pen. Not because of any conspiracy theory, just because I always carry a pen. If the paper is the right type, almost all ink is erasable.

When I did the TEE we had to use a pencil on the multi-choice papers because they were read by computer and it needed the conductivity of the graphite. Of course that's not applicable with a ballot paper. I suspect it's just that pencils are much cheaper and they know being an ex-penal colony a crapload of them will be knocked off.

I'm currently in Sydney and therefore did a postal vote. Mine was done in ink.

[ChookD2]

Pen or pencil, if voting truly counted to be of any benefit for the population,............ politicians wouldn't let us do it.

[4bee]

Pen or pencil, if voting truly counted to be of any benefit for the population,............ politicians wouldn't let us do it.

And who knows what little tricks they get up to in the Electoral Offices after the Postal Votes arrive? More this year than any other I see.


Cynical? Who me?

[Markf]

And who knows what little tricks they get up to in the Electoral Offices after the Postal Votes arrive? More this year than any other I see.


Cynical? Who me?

Given that a parcel from Pakenham to Moe (about 80km) takes about a week going via a mail centre in Perth WA and a parcel from Dandenong to Moe (about 100km) takes about 8 days going via Hobart I reckon that postal votes will still be arriving at their destination for months to come.....

[JDNSW]

And who knows what little tricks they get up to in the Electoral Offices after the Postal Votes arrive? More this year than any other I see.


Cynical? Who me?

Votes are counted at the polling places, with scrutineers from the candidates and parties looking at the process, and ballot papers kept in case a recount is required. Bit hard for the "electoral offices" to get up to anything.

[4bee]

Votes are counted at the polling places, with scrutineers from the candidates and parties looking at the process, and ballot papers kept in case a recount is required. Bit hard for the "electoral offices" to get up to anything.

Even with Postal Votes?

[Discosux]

Votes are counted at the polling places, with scrutineers from the candidates and parties looking at the process, and ballot papers kept in case a recount is required. Bit hard for the "electoral offices" to get up to anything.

2nd last election I voted out of area. Handed my completed paperwork to the official, no straight into an envelope or anything. He just had it in his hand as I walked out.

We need Chads in this country.

[JDNSW]

Postal votes and Declaration votes are counted at central locations, but again, with the entire process observed by scrutineers. The AEC takes care to make all their processes as secure and open to scrutiny as possible.

As far as I am aware there have been no credible evidence of any vote manipulation in Australia in the last century at least, although there have been examples of multiple voting and graveyard voting, especially in local government elections, and for some reason especially in Richmond in Melbourne, although I'm pretty certain these have been very rare post war.