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  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    According to that voting koala I should vote 1 for the Bullet Train guys, because they will lose, and then rank the parties from least-to-most racist.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I appreciate the bullet train guys for their no nonsense approach. They care about exactly one thing, and don't bother trying to formulate a vague and uninformed policy in any other area.

    I also quite like trains.

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    I've been telling everyone I know. At work, at church, other friends, to vote below the line all week. Some of them I had to convince to even vote, or vote properly!

    I should've printed a copy of that comic and put it in my wallet.

    Anyway, I voted right after I finished work. Didn't get accosted by anyone, but it was (and is) raining. Got a hot dog (onions were really fucking great) and chatted to the labour guys for a bit.

  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    Liberal will probably win out of sheer laziness of the voters staying above the line. Ugh.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    There were only 62 choices below the line on our white ballot paper. It still took a while to fill them all out. I mean, how do you decide who you hate more out of the Stable Population Party and the Smokers Rights party?

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    108 spots below the line on my sheet today

  • KincaidKincaid You're standing on my neck KuwaitRegistered User regular
    Resisting the urge to pick fights with the Rise Up Australia reps.

  • KincaidKincaid You're standing on my neck KuwaitRegistered User regular
    Aaand failed. Xenophobic fucks.

  • JintorJintor Registered User regular
    No sausage sizzle at my polling area. Shame! UnAustralian!

  • MrIamMeMrIamMe Registered User regular
    Wow, voting is like going to bunnings, if you don't grab a snag, it doesn't feel like a complete journey.

  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    The liberal bloke handing out leaflets was really really pushy about it and got all pugnacious when I told him I'd printed off my preferences at belowtheline.

    Tried to shove it into my hands so I reported him to the officer inside when I got there and as I was leaving they were arguing.

    I hope they threw him out on his wrinkly decrepit old ass.

  • JintorJintor Registered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    My parents were astounded I did the whole below the line thing

    after doing it today, i'm astounded I did it too

    I went in preprepared and it still took an eternity

    still, it was just copying down numbers i'd written down a few days ago, so no sweat off my back really

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    It's weird being an American and hearing "liberal" associated with "rich old men who hate people who aren't rich old men"

  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    I want to go to a cafe for lunch after voting but I have a feeling everyone and their cats had the same idea.

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  • Cobalt60Cobalt60 regular Registered User regular
    I bought myself an ice cream after voting!

  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    I wish there was a way to order the parties but say 'hey, I don't know who the hell your individual members are so figure it out between yourselves'.

  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    Awesome'd for use of pugnacious.

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    I also wish there was a Salty Bet equivalent for electoral divisions. That'd make an awesome election party.

    Flay on
  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    It's weird being an American and hearing "liberal" associated with "rich old men who hate people who aren't rich old men"
    I ain't American and it took me ages to get used to it, too.

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  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    Done! Only 27 people below the line, wasn't too hard. And the sausage sizzle had proper crusty bread rolls! Delicious.
    Flay wrote: »
    I wish there was a way to order the parties but say 'hey, I don't know who the hell your individual members are so figure it out between yourselves'.

    This is what stopped me from voting below the line in previous years. I could rank my preferences for the parties, but I don't know anything about their members other than the leader (if that). And I felt bad just superfluously numbering them at random.

    Decided to not be worried about it this year, it can't make that big a difference, and went top to bottom.

  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    For those of you that haven't voted yet, if you go here it will let show you all the people for the lower and upper house, then you can order them in your preferred order.

    The right hand side of the page lets you select a party and see how they have preferences set up, so you can work it out step by step of you want. Links to each Party's we site so you can read their policies as you go too.

    Then at the end it prints out a 2-3 page PDF with everything listed as it is on the ballot paper with the order you selected so you're not flicking the sheet of paper over trying to find who you want to put below the line next.

  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    marty_0001 wrote: »
    Done! Only 27 people below the line, wasn't too hard. And the sausage sizzle had proper crusty bread rolls! Delicious.
    Flay wrote: »
    I wish there was a way to order the parties but say 'hey, I don't know who the hell your individual members are so figure it out between yourselves'.

    This is what stopped me from voting below the line in previous years. I could rank my preferences for the parties, but I don't know anything about their members other than the leader (if that). And I felt bad just superfluously numbering them at random.

    Decided to not be worried about it this year, it can't make that big a difference, and went top to bottom.

    The thing about preferential voting is that if you just vote like this (or members within a party in random order) it will basically sort itself out due to how many people vote above the line.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Voting done.
    Got patronised by Nova Peris.
    Aircon was lovely.
    Helpers were lovely.
    Had to go to Bunnings for a snag.

    B-

    Veldrin on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    Queuing to vote now. Seeing a lot of Liberal HTV cards in the hands of people ahead of me...

  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    P good facebook post.
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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    There were 97 options for the senate.

    I said fuck that noise and voted above the line. I just don't care anymore.

    I also got Mc Donalds breakfast. Mmmm :P

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  • MrIamMeMrIamMe Registered User regular
    More importantly, did you get a snag at the polling booth?

    It is of national importance!

  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Voting done.
    Got patronised by Nova Peris.
    Aircon was lovely.
    Helpers were lovely.
    Had to go to Bunnings for a snag.

    B-

    Is that a B minus or a tiny penis? Either is appropriate.

    No snags here either.

    Flay on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    Heatwave wrote: »
    There were 97 options for the senate.

    I said fuck that noise and voted above the line. I just don't care anymore.

    I also got Mc Donalds breakfast. Mmmm :P

    I think that was House of Reps, Senate is the green paper and is usually just a handful of people. My HoR paper had 62 people and I thought that was pretty bad, 97 is just insane. What does it take to get on that thing?

  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    Yeah you're probably right.

    Also, no I didn't get a snag. I was like 8 in the morning though, so they may not not started yet. Still a travesty.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    110 people to vote for O_o

  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    No snags at mine, so I went to a local cafe for lunch and am now eating hummingbird cake.

    I had never heard of hummingbird cake before, it is pretty good.

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  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    hummingbirds are endangered, you monster

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    Considering some of the people who get on it, it can't take that much.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    I didn't know anything about the Rise Up Australia party so I looked em up
    The party was launched with the help of Christopher Monckton

    oooooooh
    Nalliah has declared former Prime Minister Julia Gillard a heathen "living in sin" and former Greens leader Bob Brown an "openly practising homosexual" and said that he felt sick to the stomach watching them shake hands.

    ooooooooohhhhhh
    The party leader Nalliah also claims that he has divine powers and has resurrected 3 dead people, and that God has spoken to him on several occasions.

    oooooooooohhhh

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    I got at snag at 8:30, and it was even raining

    sucks to be all you guys

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    I didn't know anything about the Rise Up Australia party so I looked em up

    [ quote]The party was launched with the help of Christopher Monckton

    oooooooh
    Nalliah has declared former Prime Minister Julia Gillard a heathen "living in sin" and former Greens leader Bob Brown an "openly practising homosexual" and said that he felt sick to the stomach watching them shake hands.

    ooooooooohhhhhh
    The party leader Nalliah also claims that he has divine powers and has resurrected 3 dead people, and that God has spoken to him on several occasions.

    oooooooooohhhh
    [/quote]
    Please just kill me now

    I don't want to share this planet with this man

    Anzekay on
  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    first time i've voted greens in both houses

    i regret nothing

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    Oh gosh, I ranked them at like 90 out of 97, now I feel bad for not ranking them lower. Higher? Closer to 97.

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  • EmbraceThePingEmbraceThePing ひきこもり Where the Crabbits and the Iz roam and the Jungle Queen rules the plainsRegistered User regular
    Done.
    I don't know why but voting always reminds me of having a poop in a public toilet. I'm disgusted by what I see as I go in, it's a (sometimes) a painful process but it's a weight off my mind when I'm done.

    No snag in a bun at my polling station. :(
    I just inhaled some dead roster + coke at the local shopping centre.


    I can't help but think that as good as a democratic system can be it will always be spoilt by giving the vote to everyone. It devalues the system and let's the vast majority of idiots have an opinion in something that they have no basic understanding of.

    I think you should have to do a course and get a pass mark to be able to vote.

    Then all we have to do is remove this totally fucking stupid idea politicians have that because a political party wins an election, it's a "mandate" to enable any stupid shit that they can think up.

    If they can find a way to computerise referendums so they aren't so damned expensive then we will be able to exercise some democracy.

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