Yes23 has been forced to delete a social media post after the Australian Electoral Commission stepped in again telling the campaign to remove a misleading graphic.
The"grassroots coalition" shared an image to X, formerly known as Twitter, showing what it believed would happen if Australians cast their vote in a certain way in the referendum.
The AEC spotted the post on Wednesday morning and told Yes23 to remove the graphic immediately as it may cause"confusion" for early voters, with pre-polling kicking off this week. The referendum will operate differently to elections, with voters told to write Yes or No on their ballot, however, there was some early confusion surrounding using a cross and tick.
"Unlike a cross, which has more than one signification, either approval or disapproval … the tick approves or selects the affirmative as the voter’s answer," he said.Billionaire businessman Clive Palmer and United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet tried to challenge the move, but a federal court ruled in favour of the AEC. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Ascui
“There’ll be very clear information on the ballot paper in the polling place, we’re spending a lot of time on that issue and what we’re trying to do is to make sure under the legislation that when the voters’ intent is clear that those votes are included.”
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