Something stupid about voting

Batch · March 28, 2015, 08:11:22 PM

Okay, so in Australia I had to vote yesterday (yes compulsory voting, but it doesnt bother me) it was for the state seats of government.

Now I'm not here to ramble on about some bullshit parties who you've never heard of, but the act and ease of voting in this country. Now if it is the same everywhere else tell me.

But this is ridiculous, once you put your name in the electoral commission roll, it's there for life, now when I went to vote I waited in line, and when I got to the table, a man asked what my name was, I told you, he gave me the ballot papers and that was it.....now I work in a Post Office and privacy is something I specialise in.

To vote, you don't need to show ID? What the fuck? No form at all? No photo ID to confirm you are who you say you are? This is my first time voting, and this became a shock to me.....with the accessibility of social media and the ease of collecting information on the net, one party could easily collect names and get agents to go from town to town to post votes for others without their knowledge, now this would get caught up eventually, but some people just forget to vote or just don't at all.

It's a flawed system in my eyes.....to vote for our new government seats and we don't even have to prove who we are? Pathetic.

*sips tea*

Forgewolf · March 29, 2015, 12:07:34 AM

Quote from: Batch on March 28, 2015, 08:11:22 PM

To vote, you don't need to show ID? What the fuck? No form at all? No photo ID to confirm you are who you say you are? This is my first time voting, and this became a shock to me.....with the accessibility of social media and the ease of collecting information on the net, one party could easily collect names and get agents to go from town to town to post votes for others without their knowledge, now this would get caught up eventually, but some people just forget to vote or just don't at all.

It's a flawed system in my eyes.....to vote for our new government seats and we don't even have to prove who we are? Pathetic.

*sips tea*

Now it makes even more sense why Obama and the Democratic party wants this. Then the Republicans will obviously join in afterwards and then regular people won't get to vote.. lol

big sponge · March 29, 2015, 01:02:05 AM

Quote from: Forgewolf on March 29, 2015, 12:07:34 AM

Quote from: Batch on March 28, 2015, 08:11:22 PM

To vote, you don't need to show ID? What the fuck? No form at all? No photo ID to confirm you are who you say you are? This is my first time voting, and this became a shock to me.....with the accessibility of social media and the ease of collecting information on the net, one party could easily collect names and get agents to go from town to town to post votes for others without their knowledge, now this would get caught up eventually, but some people just forget to vote or just don't at all.

It's a flawed system in my eyes.....to vote for our new government seats and we don't even have to prove who we are? Pathetic.

*sips tea*
Now it makes even more sense why Obama and the Democratic party wants this.

So they can be elected to the parliament in Australia?

In regards to the OP, voter fraud is something that's basically non existent anyway. In the US for example there have been 633 instances of voter fraud in the last 15 years.

633 fraudulent votes out of hundreds of millions cast across all of the elections that have taken place over the 15 years.

To put this into perspective let's do some math. For simplicities sake we'll say that there are only 300 million Americans. Also so I don't have to do that much math we'll say that only half of them are of voting age (in reality its something around 80%). That leaves us with 150 million voting Americans. To further simplify this we'll also say that people are only voting in presidential elections and ignoring off year congress ones, state, local, et cetera.

That's 600,000,000 votes cast over the last 15 years. 633 out of 600,000,000. That equates to 0.000001% and this is just out of an incredibly simplified run down. The real percentage of voter fraud is much MUCH lower.

Flee · March 29, 2015, 04:59:09 AM

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BrenMan 94 · March 29, 2015, 07:41:13 AM

But muh discriminating voter ID laws!

To be fair, voter fraud is so minuscule it's hardly worth bringing up. It always gets blown out of proportions by the right-wing media (at least here in the US).