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Our nine recommendations are robustly underpinned by things you read and hear in the news.
2016 Federal Election - "Electoral Roll is a shambles..." - Lex Stewart
AFHE President, Lex Stewart, tells Alan Jones Electoral Commission does not have resources to check the Rolls...and ignores National Audit Office alerts about Roll faults."
IN THE MEDIA - 2016 Federal Election - Multiple Voting "too tempting..." - Mark Latham
Mark Latham tells Alan Jones "...hoards of people will mobilise to record multiple votes..."
IN THE MEDIA - 2015 By-Election - Electorate of Canning (WA)
- Voting Shambles (The Spectator)
IN THE MEDIA - 2013 Federal Election - Indi / Cathy McGowan / Sophie Mirabella
- Cathy McGowan campaigner lives in Darwin but voted in Indi (The Australian)
- Cathy McGowan's niece, supporter to be charged with voter fraud (ABC News)
- Lawyers on Indi voting fraud list (The Australian)
- Batch of False Votes Tar Cathy McGowan's Indi Win (The Australian)
- Probe into Indi vote fraud finds social media ‘evidence’ wiped (The Australian)
- Tripped By Twitter - Indi Enrolments Under Cloud (The Australian)
IN THE MEDIA - 2013 Federal Election - WA Senate Recount
- AEC head Ed Killesteyn and electoral officer resign over WA votes scandal (The Guardian)
- WA Senate recount: Mick Keelty to lead inquiry into 1375 missing ballots (The Guardian)
- Missing WA Senate votes - lax security led to lost ballot papers, report finds (The Guardian)
- WA Senate election - AEC admits security breach (The Guardian)
IN THE MEDIA - 2013 Federal Election
- AEC uncovers nearly 2,000 cases of multiple voting in 2013 Federal Election (The Guardian)
- Police investigate multiple votes in 2013 Federal Election (News.com)
- Thousands admit to multiple votes in 2013 Federal Election (ABC News)
- AEC finds no one to charge despite many cases of voting fraud (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Some Australians voted more than once in federal election - AEC (The Age)
- Let's ditch paper ballots and go electric: Turnbull (The Sydney Morning Herald)
IN THE MEDIA - 2010 Federal Election
- AEC admits it can't establish who is flouting electoral laws (News.com.au)
- Absentee-voting an open door to fraud (News Weekly)
- The undetectable crime of electoral fraud (News Weekly)
ONLINE DOCUMENTS
DOWNLOADABLES
| Keelty Report - Inquiry into the 2013 WA Senate Election with findings and recommendations.pdf |
| Multiple Voting & Voter Identification - A Report Prepared for the NSWEC by Prof. Rodney Smith |
OFFICIAL SITES
- Australian Electoral Commission
- Special Minister of State (Official government website)