And still there is more
Polling day Tickets and preferences I hope ticket voting is, or will be, a thing of the past (sadly not for Victoria in November, 2026). https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/voting/how-voting-works/preferential-voting In ticket voting the parties may make deals between themselves and control how your vote's preferences are allocated. The parties encourage a simple and quick "1". They want you to leave the rest to them. Preferences are vital if no candidate for a lower house seat has over 50% of the valid votes. (Then the lowest scoring candidate's votes get to be transferred to the other candidates.) Parties hand out "how-to-vote" material. They tell you how to number your boxes. That is called allocating preferences. The parties may have made deals but you still decide. To number or not to number Is it hard to know how to fill the boxes? You might use the "how-to-vote" of the candidate you most do NOT want. (Never!) Then, just number in exactly the opposite...