(For Australian members) the new Australian Senate voting rules

[sb27]

[media]http://youtu.be/zuUxZlZygO0[/media]

For reference, especially to those who haven't voted before, the old rules were you could either only vote for one ticket by numbering a single box above the line, or vote for individual candidates by sequentially numbering at least 90% of the (usually more than 100) boxes below the line.

It is hoped that this reform will make it virtually impossible for micro parties to be elected from the ticket votes: At the last Senate election, only 1 of the 8 independent/micro party Senators were elected without having to resort to paying for 'preference whispering'.

[Fawkbawkz]

Also outlines new rules for applying for an elected position in the government.

tl;dw: New rules are if you box an adult kangaroo into submission, you can be a senator. If you wrestle and then tie an eastern brown snake into a bowtie, you can be president. If you wrestle a croc, then you can be the new crocodile hunter (the world agreed it's been long enough that we can have a new one). Congrats Aussies on your circus election rules for your circus country.

[Whomobile]

[QUOTE=Fawkbawkz;50217792]Also outlines new rules for applying for an elected position in the government.

tl;dw: New rules are if you box an adult kangaroo into submission, you can be a senator. If you wrestle and then tie an eastern brown snake into a bowtie, you can be president. If you wrestle a croc, then you can be the new crocodile hunter (the world agreed it's been long enough that we can have a new one). Congrats Aussies on your circus election rules for your circus country.[/QUOTE]

M8 we don't have a President, instead we have a cunt called the "Governor General" since we're still technically a commonwealth. Doesn't matter too much anyway since he/she gets picked by the Prime Minister and has to bring the pelt of two adult male dropbears to earn the public's respect.

[fruxodaily]

but you're still going to get that one cunt who numbers every box only to fuck it up at the end causing all the polling workers to be extremely pissed off

[sb27]

[QUOTE=Whomobile;50217935]M8 we don't have a President, instead we have a cunt called the "Governor General" since we're still technically a commonwealth. Doesn't matter too much anyway since he/she gets picked by the Prime Minister and has to bring the pelt of two adult male dropbears to earn the public's respect.[/QUOTE]

We actually do have a President though haha. They're the Senate's equivalent of the Speaker

[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Australian_Senate[/url]