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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!dstos3.dsto.gov.au!dstos3.dsto.gov.au!nntp
  2. Newsgroups: aus.politics
  3. Subject: Re: Clever Voting
  4. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.155212.165616@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
  5. From: mjp@itd.dsto.gov.au
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 15:52:08 CST
  7. References: <1i8dr8INN4eq@werple.apana.org.au>   
  8.  <1993Jan6.000915.16335@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <dyfl.726282282@phobos> 
  9.  <1993Jan6.024402.25318@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <chris.726732340@suite.sw.oz.au>
  10. Keywords: federal elections
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: se14.dsto.gov.au
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  14. chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Finally, for the Senate, you may be surprised how far your preferences
  17. >may travel, even if you vote for a major party (hah!). Don't fall into
  18. >the trap of numbering left to right after a certain point, nor into
  19. >the trap of voting above the line. It's worth taking the time and
  20. >studying the sample paper they publish in newspapers before the election
  21. >and working out exactly what your preferences are, and then bringing that
  22. >with you to the booth.
  23.  
  24. Indeed. The number of people I spoke to who, at the last
  25. federal election, started numbering their senate paper with
  26. 33 Rona Joiner
  27. and worked out the rest later was amazing.
  28.  
  29.  
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  31. Michael Pilling                Phone: +61 8 259 7017
  32. DSTO ITD/SE 171 Labs                  Fax: +61 8 259 5589
  33. PO Box 1500                Telex: AA82799
  34. Salisbury SA 5108, Australia        michael_pilling@itd.dsto.gov.au
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