Big disparities in the informal vote across the nation spark fresh questions about compulsory preferential voting
nationally for the House of Representatives, which is lower than the 5.54% figure for 2019.
In the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, where there is a high Indigenous population, informal votes were running at 6.15%, and in the Melbourne seat of Hawke, on the city’s western fringe, at 9.21%. “The AEC, they are not doing enough to address it. They have resources online and they provide information in several languages but it’s not just about addressing community leaders, it needs to be one-on-one,” she said.
“Even I was not prepared for the Senate ballot sheet, and the changed instructions on how to vote,” she said., said the first thing was to understand the problem. The spokesperson said the AEC had taken steps to assist people for whom English is a second language.
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