Australia up next: Federal election tomorrow

[SanAndreasX]

Pemalite said:

SvennoJ said:

Interesting
https://www.elections.wa.gov.au/vote/failure-vote

Is there an abstain option on the ballot, none of the above?
Can you leave the ballot blank?

Or are you forced to choose a party that you don't agree with if there's none for your liking?

Should iterate that it's compulsory to "show up and vote". - You can write penises on your vote and make it null and void if you so wish.

We have a preferential voting system which I would argue is better than most other democracies.


I of course voted several days ago because I am working remotely currently.

Three states in the U.S. use preferential/ranked choice voting in varying degrees, namely, Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii. Republicans, naturally, reject anything other than winner-takes-all, first past the posts. American conservatives were raging that the leader of the right-wing party that got less than percent of the vote in Austria didn't become their chancellor. As far as they were concerned, FPO's 28.85% of the vote percent of the vote entitled Herbert Kickl to the chancellorship as the "will of the majority" (plurality doesn't exist for these people. Even Trump's tally of the 2024 vote was a plurality rather than an actual majority.)