Thu May 26, 2022 – 2:14 pm EDT
CANBERRA (LifeSiteNews) – The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has sabotaged independent upper house (i.e., Senate) candidates around the country in our recent federal election. It is a national scandal unsurprisingly getting no attention from politicians or the mainstream media, yet it represents the biggest failure by election administrators in the nation’s history.
For those of you reading from outside Australia, I’ll give you a quick explanation of our federal parliament structure and election process.
Our elections are very different to the ones in USA. Our federal parliament is made of 151 lower house (i.e., House of Representatives) seats and 76 upper house seats. The lower house introduces and votes on bills, whereas the upper house votes to approve, amend, or block the bills handed up by the lower house. When we have a federal election, we must vote on two separate pieces of paper, one for each house.
The lower house ballot looks like this. We must number every single box with 1 being our favorite. Lower house members represent a specific region within their state. Notice that the independents get the word ‘independent’ under their name.
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