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My Voting Proposal

Written on March 14, 2010 – 12:47 am | by Jill Brown

It appears Australia will soon be preparing for another Election.

Federal or State Election happen regularly in Australia. We hold one every 3 years or sooner is likely. The Politicians collect huge sums of money by holding Elections. Any wonder we have them so often? Voting is compulsory in Australia and fines apply for those who fail to vote. Also in N.S.W. and in other States, Queensland excluded the voter is responsible for voting in the Senate.  Senate Candidates can be as many as 60 or 70 people standing and each candidate needing to be numbered in preference order if voting below the line is preferred. Any mistake in numbering will cause the whole voting form for this vote to be declared an invalid vote.

It’s ironic

The ironic thing about Federal and State Elections in Australia is that before election day there is very little if any information available on candidates standing for election. On election day the potential voter,  “that’s all of us” heads towards the polling booth with all good intentions to vote in the right way at the ballot box. We will on the way most likely be rushed by polling booth workers. They line themselves outside the entrance and are wanting to thrust their particular brand of a How-To-Vote form in the hand of the potential voter. Each person also prefer to have their form sitting on top of the pile so that they have a better chance to receive the vote. The voter by now is clutching many pamphlets and guides on How-To-Vote holding candidate names and photos. Candidates are people that the voter does not recognize and does not know. Never-the-less the voter is expected to vote for a candidate and expected to allocate preferences to people they do not know. Sometimes the voter reaches a point where he decides not to vote for either one of the two major parties. He will soon realize though that his vote will in fact go to the two major party’s and against his will.

The voter on and before election day is faced with the situation of not knowing:

• Who the candidates are that are standing for the major parties
• How many independents are standing and what they stand for, or against
• Where are preferences going
  
• What are the policies of each candidate
• If there are any policies at all to consider
• Who’s standing against the sitting member in their own area
• Who’s standing in the Senate and for what party
• What candidate may be standing for a principle, etc.

The voter does however know one thing that is certain. That is that one of the two major parties will win the election. Lib or Lab will receive the vote even if it’s against the voters wishes. That is happening in Australian politics because the two major parties have the Preferential voting system structured to favour themselves to always win the election. The two major parties will also go into collusion if necessary to keep smaller parties and independents out of the running. This happened when Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) came along from 1997 to 2001. The two major parties went into collusion and kept PHON out of politics. That happened even though PHON had the majority of votes and voters wanted Pauline to be in politics. Now LibLab (they proved to be one party by keeping PHON out) has won they do not have to win the voter over by making policies and making promises. The monopoly now stands that LibLab are preferencing each other. A ploy to stay in leadership in Australian politics. Australian Politicians are no longer pressured to keep the voter happy. Once-upon-a-time politicians needed policies to attract the voter and now they don’t. They have now done away with making policies and the community as a whole suffers as a result. Results are a constant erosion of infrastructure and in important services in the community. The erosion of public hospital services is just one example that service structures in the community are declining.

My voting proposal is that voters unite to take back control of the vote.

My Proposal to take back control we the voter must unite and vote as one in an effort to win back power. The voter can make a difference by having a voting strategy such as this. We need to be able to pick off the two major party’s one by one. This voting strategy can cause favorable policies to once again be introduced that support the community.  My Proposal is to use the strategy that the voter needs to tackle each election as if in a situation similar to that as a WAR situation. A situation that one would face on the battle field. Federal and State elections are by all accounts similar to WAR situations! It’s not a war between the Lib’s and the Lab’s as they would have us believe or the super gullible may believe. It’s the situation of them against us – the voter against the Politician.

We the voter need to agree that voting for government is a WAR situation. We the voter must agree that in a war situation, an army if it’s to win would need to attack and defeat an enemy camp one at a time. It would be suicide to attack all the enemy at one time. Especially without the army having a plan of attack. We the voter in a similar situation must pick each political camp off one by one.  We the voter also needs to agree that in any war tactic the army must take out the strongest enemy camp first. Is this understood as a logical conclusion? An example could possibly be to ask the question: Why would the general weaken and to tire-out his army by first attacking the smaller groups when he still had the main and strongest enemy to defeat?

The strongest political party in Australia is the Party in power now and this Party has been the strongest political party for a long time in Australian politics. At present this political party is in power or in office if you like, in both Federal and State politics. My proposal will work if the majority of votes follow the voting rule of My Proposal. The voting rule is for the voter to unite and vote for one party at a time. The rule in My Proposal is to pick off and defeat each one of the two major parties one by one. Following the rule of My Proposal is that the voter will need to vote in the next election be it a Federal or State Election for the Liberal Party. The voter must also keep voting for the Liberal Party in every election until the Labor Party is gone and is begging for votes. As nasty as it may sound this strategy must be followed for the long term benefit of the community, the country and for the voter to win back the power in the election war.

To get the message of My Voting Proposal across to the voting majority and to agree will be the hardest challenge.

Especially hard when the major party’s have such a stronghold on the voting system in Australia. I may hear someone say at this point, “What about the Greens, why not vote for The Greens?” For My Proposal to work the vote can not go to the Greens. One reason is that Greens preferences ALWAYS and that is ALWAYS goes to the Labor Party. That is always and no matter what the policies may be or if they do not agree on policies. The Libs are next in line for elimination. They the 2nd biggest party to contend with so once the strongest is defeated they will need to be the next target. Then we may vote for the Greens. I may also hear someone saying at this point, “Won’t this make an equally strong party of the Greens for the voter to contend with?” It may for a while but the difference is that the voter will be in control of the voting system. Also if My Proposal is implemented the Preferential Voting System could possibly be used as originally intended to be used. Without corruption preferences are good tools for the voter to use.

When My Voting Proposal starts to take effect the smaller parties and the independents may see a change taking place. As a result My Proposal could cause candidates who want the vote or who are after preferences to start making proper preference deals. Possibly My Proposal will also bring back favourable policies that will WIN the voter over.

Power To The Voter, by using My Voting Proposal!

Thank You.

Jill Brown.

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