Party preference tickets were abolished in #Australia after the 2013 #election, in which a #workingClass gentleman, named #RickyMuir was elected.
There was nothing particularly bad about Ricky — like there was nothing bad about parties preferences. The big problem with publicly available #PartyPreferences is that:
a) they required majorParties to talk to minorParties,
b) forced majorParties to publicly rank parties (though vote splitting was possible),
c) they're not entirely predictable…1/2
2/2… in terms of how preferences might flow (the #corporateState are obsessive when it comes to #predictability and elevate #talkingHeads like #AntonyGreen whose job it is to relay an algorithmic #forecast, literally like a weather forecast, #election outcomes).
They would rather your vote end up in the bin, "exhausted" — that's the #newSpeak language they use, for a wasted vote, today.
The #corporateState are an enemy to dialogue, real #transparency and genuine #democracy.
#orwellian #1984
Most #Australians remember the frenzied cacophony of #legacyMedia hacks that emerged from the election of Ricky Muir.
So-called "progressive" outlets lampooned our democratic process that ensured votes for #minorParties were never wasted (unlike in the #USA). A process that enabled people like the once-relevant #NickXenophon to get elected.
They #engineeredConsent to change our #votingSystem, at every opportunity demonising the workingClass senator.
Maybe if he called himself 'Richard'???
Now our Senate voting process has a arbitrary, obtuse call to number at least 6 parties above the line.
They could have done this while retaining #PartyPreferences, but they didn't because anyone who looks at how preferences flow will tell you that numbering only 6 parties will steer votes towards the two #majorParties.
The #forcedNews media are trained not to draw attention to things like that.
Divide the peoples' #votes for minor parties — and rule.
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters