Well did my bit . . . in a seat with no chance of the sitting member losing there seat I voted against the sitting member.

I just hope my senate vote counts for something.

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Saw something relating to sex and party when voting to day so just went for that, what else could you ask for (no homo)

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I saw a sausage sizzle at my polling place. Sooooo wanted to vote for onions but they had none

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Voted for Pedro.

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I hope this is the last election with preferential votes or at least candidates must be upfront and say where their votes are actually going.

Quite a few of Labor's 'wins' are only due to them getting the Green's votes. I'd like to know how many Green voters actually wanted to vote for their labor counterpart?

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^^^Liberal had a how to vote card for that reason. A guy at our booth was standing behind the green guy, when somebody grabbed a green card he handed them a revised HTV card sending preferences to Liberal. I think about 3% of preferences from the greens went to liberal.

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Yeah looking at some of the results, there were about half a dozen seats 'won' by the Coalition, yet with the preference votes Labor ends up taking those seats.

To me, most people who voted for another party should be aware which major party they are actually voting for. Plus it seems a bit harsh for the other people running in a seat with a Green and Labor candidate as the Labor candidate is essentially getting a lot of free votes. Especially in this election where a lot of people have voted for Green in the HoR.

Same with the overall votes, only when you add up the ALP and Green votes does Labor get the 50.x%.

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This is why this hung parliament/close election rubbish is so annoying! Because the fact is, Labor have nowhere near the support that it appears they do! It is just because of the Green's preferences that they are even in the race, and I blame all the "enviro-retards" who think that a vote for the Green's is going to save the trees/whales/planet/whatever...

I am all for preservation of the planet and animals etc, but IMO the stupid ideas and policies which the Green's stand for FAR outweigh any positive changes to how our government treats the environment!

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I know quite a few people who voted for the greens knowing their preference would go to labor but they wanted to support labor but also show Australia that they cared about our environment.

Exactly, we go to the polls knowing that preference votes count, free votes talk is rubbish. I have a few mates too who voted greens, as a protest vote against labor. They still hate libs

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