Voter Notes

The voters in South Australia had two ballot papers, very like in an Australian Federal election. The voter was required to number all boxes on their lower house (Assembly) ballot paper. Full preferential voting was used. Failure to preference all candidates made a ballot informal. Some people think full preferential voting ought not to be used. Others think preferences after 1 should be optional. What do you think?

 Some interesting commentary published this week.

The story of the forthcoming by-election for the Division of Farrer is interesting (to me). Here is a report https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/liberal-by-election-candidate-raissa-butkowski-farrer/106456908 (The list of "candidates" is included.)

   Being curious, I looked up the proposed USA legislation about voter registration (see image). The news says this bill before Congress is a "line in the sand" for their President.