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| | Australian electoral system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is known as the "nexus clause." An attempt to remove it from the Constitution was defeated at a referendum in 1967. | | | Different systems are used for the states and territories. | | | The Australian Senate has 76 members: each of the six states elects 12 Senators, and the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory each elect two Senators. |
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| | The electoral system for the Senate is known as quota-based proportional representation. | | | Under the Commonwealth Electoral Act federal elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate are conducted using a full preferential voting system, as opposed to optional preferential voting or 'first-past-the-post' as used in other countries. | | | This system of full preferential voting ensures that a majority of voters have a some say in the election of the successful candidate even though each voter's first choice might not be elected. |
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http://www.rotaryalumniwa.ii.net/electsys.htm
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| | NAME OF PAPER (Research Paper 29 1999-2000) |
| | 16, in that the qualification of electors for Senate elections, and of Senators, is defined in terms of the provisions applicable to Members of the House of Representatives. | | | The 1919 amendments to the Electoral Act introduced a new form of preferential voting for the Senate. | | | The balance between parliamentary and public service review of early electoral developments is nicely captured in two reports from 1904, the first year of the second Parliament and the first year after the inaugural test of the electoral provisions at the 1903 general elections. |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1999-2000/2000rp29.htm
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| | Marxism message, Socialists and the coming federal elections. The slogan of all |
| | The Labor Party is in electoral control of all houses of all state and territory parliaments for the first time in Australian history, although in several states it relies on the support of independents, Democrats and Greens to govern. | | | At the second level of government, the six states and the two territories, there are single-member electorates in lower houses, with one vote-one-value in most states, although in WA there is still an undemocratic weighting in favour of rural electorates in the lower house. | | | The two exceptions are the state of Tasmania, where the lower house is elected by a Hare-Clark proportional representation system, and the ACT, which has a one-house system elected by proportional representation. |
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http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w46/msg00094.htm
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| | VASST VCE - The Aboriginal Community |
| | The voters should understand an electoral system and the laws governing elections should be clear. | | | Because senators have fixed terms (and members of the Hose of Representatives don't), and elections are usually held simultaneously for the two houses, it means that new senators may be declared, but old senators are still in the parliament until their term expires. | | | This was a simple and straightforward question which, had it passed, would have enshrined the principle of 'one vote, one value' into all state and territory governments in Australia, and in the national House of Representatives. |
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http://www.vasst.asn.au/vce/fairelect.html
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| | CBC News: B.C. voters to choose electoral system next May |
| | It is an independent, non-partisan assembly of citizens asked to examine the province's electoral system. | | | If voters opt for change, the STV system would be in place for the 2009 provincial election. | | | Currently, the province uses the first-past-the-post electoral system. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/24/stv_bc041024.html
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| | Shepherdson Inquiry: Queensland Electoral Fraud, report, April 2001 |
| | One of the rules governing eligibility for voting in an ALP preselection is that the voter must be enrolled on the electoral roll for the electorate in which the preselection is being conducted. | | | However, a by-product of the activity was that his family members were also enabled to vote at local, state and federal elections in electorates or wards in which they had no lawful entitlement to vote. | | | While the motive of the three young men was nothing more sinister than to show support for their stepfather, the reality was that the enrolments enabled them to vote in public elections where they had no lawful entitlement to vote. |
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http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/electqueensland.htm
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| | Voting & Elections |
| | Australian Government and Politics - a searchable database from the University of Western Australia, containing details of all State and Federal elections since 1890, details of political parties and a glossary of political terms. | | | Democrats Call For Reform - a 1999 speech by Senator Meg Lees in which she calls for parliamentary and electoral reform. | | | Dec 23 2000: Ronaldson Retirement A New Electoral Hurdle For Howard |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/21947/20011112/vcepolitics.com/voting
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| | Numbers of informal votes vary from electorate to electorate, but in the 1996 election 3% of all votes cast were informal. | | | Subject: OT Australian voting According to the Australian Electoral Commission's web site http://www.aec.gov.au/compulsory the voter turnout is currently about 96% (so I was out by a couple of percent). | | | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 00:08:53 +1000 From: Andrew Subject: Re: australian voting...and jury duty Jonathan Molloy wrote: > As for the invalid votes, I was a scrutineer at the recent State election in NSW and there was a > significant number of informal votes at my booth. |
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http://www.things.org/music/billy_bragg/digest_archives/v01.n2990
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| | International IDEA Electoral System Families |
| | In SNTV systems, each elector has one vote but there are several seats in the district to be filled, and the candidates with the highest number of votes fill these positions. | | | But preferential voting can work equally well: the Single Transferable Vote, where voters rank-order candidates in multi-member districts, is another well-established proportional system. | | | Just over half (114, or 54% of the total) of the independent states and semi-autonomous territories of the world which have direct parliamentary elections use plurality-majority systems; another 75 (35%) use PR-type systems, and the remaining (10%) use semi-PR systems, all bar two of which are Parallel systems. |
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http://www.idea.int/esd/systems.cfm
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| | Talk:Australian electoral system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Electoral Act[1] is quite clear: "It shall be the duty of every elector to vote at each election." It repeatedly refers thereafter to "failure to vote" in the regulations concerning punishment for non-voting. | | | Terms such as "protest vote" are not relevant to the topic, they are political not electoral. | | | The counter example to this claim would be the electoral system in the ACT - specifically electronic voting. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_electoral_system
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| | There are similar bodies running the state elections - for example, in Victoria we have the Victorian Electoral Commission or the VEC which runs our state elections. | | | an independent national electoral body who is in charge of voter registrations, running the polling (including absentee voting and pre-polling), and setting the boundaries of the electorates/boundaries - ie. | | | I believe that the people who work as election officials have to sign a declaration that they are not a member of a political party - the AEC site says "not politically active", though that's somewhat ambiguous IMO. |
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http://rantsandtantrums.blogspot.com
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| | AM - Electoral system set for change |
| | The minister responsible for electoral matters, Eric Abetz, hopes to make other changes to the law by the end of this year. | | | PETER CAVE: There'll be significant changes to the voting system at the next election, but they won't include the scrapping of compulsory voting. | | | There has been numerous cases, and as far as I'm concerned, one case is one too many. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1475059.htm
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