No, I don’t quite understand the full dynamics of Australia’s Electoral “Voters Preference” system — shift through this mapping at your leisure to see who you’re actually voting for when you vote for some “Sex Party” or “Hemp Party” or the Australian Larouchies of the Citizens Electoral Council

And what is worth pointing out is what happens when a major party shifts priority voting from one to another… or, this  calling out of the (ultimately victorious) Conservative Party’s candidate Tony Abbott for ranking the “Green Party” below the “Citizens Electoral Council” .

The effect from the stand-point of the CEC is seen here is that we see here, at Number Seven, that their votes have been allocated to … whomever.  974 votes have been re-allocated from the CEC (and candidate Craig Isherwood) to the “Family First” Party.  So, congratulations.  If you voted for the CEC in this election, you voted for the “Family First Party”.

And skip forward to Number 33… where the “Family First” Party’s votes get re-allocated, and these 974 votes for the preference of Australia’s Larouche Party gets re-allocated to… The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party!

Who is now elected.  Ricky Muir — your Larouche backed figure in the Australian Senate!

This is apparently part of a big fuss in the nation… and it gets interesting…

In Monday’s counting, it became clear that Liberal Zed Seselja would defeat Greens candidate Simon Sheikh for the second ACT Senate spot. In Western Australia, there remained a chance that the Palmer United Party could edge out the Sports Party for one Senate spot, while Labor was vying with the Greens for another. In Tasmania, the Palmer United Party, Sex Party and the Liberal Party were competing for the sixth spot.

Note that the Sex Party is the party that got Ricky Muir over, meaning that Ricky Muir owes the Sex Party big time and in the “go with what brung you” rule of politics, will have to work in the Senate on behalf of both his Motor Enthusiast constituency as well work on the issues of the Sex Party.  The CEC, not so much.

Okay.  Another election over here.  And what do we got?  130 votes for the CEC (were nipped in the bud, I note, by such parties as the Stable Population Party and the Sex Party — surely down the list on the CEC’s voters preference list).  Skip to Count 3.  If you voted for Vernon Work, your vote now goes to the A.F.N.P.P. …  Skip to Count 7, and these votes are reallocated to… Australian Independent … Skip to Count 9, and the CEC is now backing “Shooters and Fishers” Party (kind of darkly amusing to note that this is where the “Stable Population Party” gets dumped) … and to Count 10… and the CEC is split between the Australian Labor Party and the Palmer United Party.
And that’s how 65 CEC votes go into the victorious Australian Labor Party.

A long list of parties, being reallocated down the line.  And one “Huh” after another.

It’s a bit more effort than it’s worth finding the results for candidates… Ann Lawler, Michael Gough,  Chris Lahy, Andrew Harris…

At yesterday’s debate you wore shorts and thongs, if you are elected and have to go to Canberra do you realise you will need to dress appropriately and do you think you are ready for that?
Andrew Harris: Good to see level of discussion appropriate to dilemmas facing the population from a collapsing world economy. As for dressing appropriately in Canberra I feel it would be a little bit too cool down there for shorts and thongs.
Did you fall asleep in yesterday’s debate? It looked like you did from the dm’s live stream…

Greg Owen  – oh dear more single issue candidates gone in first round counting.  … Basically because I am very concerned about the future of the country and not just Dobell but I mean the whole country, in fact humanity when you think about it […]  It’s a bit disappointing that the media doesn’t give them the attention they deserve and I think the reason is because their policies and their views aren’t popular. 

Jean Robinson, Peter Davis, Richard Witten,  Lindsay Cosgrove who –    has decided against completing a how to vote card, with his party saying they would prefer voters make up their own minds. — so his votes aren’t going anywhere?.  Costas Goumas

AUSTRALIA VOTES!!!  And debates.

had anyone else heard that Bush went to war in Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog?
so I just checked my enrollment details via the AEC site, found out who I can vote for, googled the parties I hadn’t really heard of (the Citizens Electoral Council and teh Future Party), and checked how to vote for the senate (either a 1 above the line, or all boxes below the line)
have you checked the preference flow deals between parties?
http://preferences.theglobalmail.org/
there’s a few surprises in there

Is that wanker (La Rouche) still alive?????  Yeas, he still lives.  What a tosser he was/is!”.

Hume’s CEC believes… and is interviewd here on audio I’m not listening to…

Pegged:  Citizens Electoral Council: CT’ers and global warming deniers

Ann Lawler really packs in the votes with this rhetoric:

Since 1997 when I became aware of the CEC and what they represented nationally and globally through their association with the American physical economist Lyndon LaRouche I have contested every federal election in the House of Representatives and once in the Senate. Once I discovered the moral truth of why nation states globally are being systematically destroyed under the Anglo-Dutch system of international finance centred around the Crown, I had to take a stand.
Winning will not be determined by votes, winning will be acting on the CEC’s knowledge and direction before things really deteriorate to a point of no return. We can’t sacrifice the people to prop up unpayable gambling or go to war to defend global tyranny.

AND:  I love the CEC. The weirdness of Scientology with the zeal of internet libertarianism.

CEC discounted here…  read up on the Citizens Electoral Council and LaRouche.  Gulp!  That candidate had to go behind the majors.  Then I read up on each of the independents and the PUP candiate. 
It’s a sad circumstance when the PUP candidate sounds like a reasonable option ahead of the major parties.

THE CAMPAIGN COMMENCED.

Got this in my PO Box today:
Thought it was interesting. Mind you I’m still not voting. I also hope we do have a bank bail-in here in Australia. It might/will wake a few people up.

I check out the CEC video release on youtube every week.  Always some interesting stuff.
But as well there is always the usual ranting from them:
* “Lyndon LaRouche says XYZ”  <– CEC think he is the second coming, even though his predictions rarely come true
* Very anti the Queen and British Monarchy  <– They weave it into most conversations

In my opinion the Citizens Electoral Council are nuts. They fall into the trap of hating socialism but end up being so protectionist they economically are national socialists.

They probably are. I kept their brochure because it will fit my bird cage perfectly.
IMO they have a TBSR of about 1:10 (Truth to Bull $hit Ratio). Much of their writing is very conspiratorial.

 AND

I have to admit, I always rather look forward to the Citizens Electoral Council, because you never know quite what will be on the policy list this time, but you can be sure there will be something magnificently grandiose and just a little bit mad.  I like that in a political party.
Also, the CEC are local – our Senate Candidate also runs in our local government elections sometimes, so I feel a certain neighbourly affection.  We have our very own Coburg crazies and now, we get to export them to the world!  Or at least, to the rest of Victoria.
Sadly, not too many of the major parties share my affectionate feelings for the CEC, so they don’t tend to get very far in the Senate.  If I’m being sensible, I have to acknowledge that this is probably a good thing.
The CEC have a split ticket, but on each of them the first preference goes to the Family First Party, followed by the DLP, Wikileaks and Katter’s Australian Party.  This is alarmingly mainstream of them, but this affection is not reciprocated – Family First and Katter put them in the middle of the ticket, DLP put them a third of the way down, and Wikileaks put them dead last.  The ticket then wander through an apparently random selection of fairly right-wing parties, with One Nation coming in in the late 40s, but things diverge at 61 on their ballot, with one ticket going Democrats, Labor, Coalition, HEMP, Stable Population, Greens and Palmer United, and the other going Palmer, Coalition, Democrats, Labor Greens, and then HEMP and Stable Population.  The very bottom of the ticket is reserved for the Socialist Equality Party, with Drug Law Reform, the Sex Party and Animal Justice making up the rest of the bottom four.
Let’s have a look at their website, which is very busy looking, and immediately informs me that we must STOP the Bail-In, which is the British Crown’s Plot for Global Genocide.
Ah, CEC.  Don’t ever change. […]

Preference 84, 85… can’t help but admire the Space Program as Economic Recovery idea.

Hm.

“The media circus over Cate Blanchett is irrelevant,” Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood declared today. “The real issue is George Soros’
Anyone know what “Citizens Electoral Council” is about?
LaRouchites: absolute loving loony right-wing conspiracy theorists.
They’re basically a cult.
@ikiriki they want a new world order of banking/finance,+ think Syria is some sort of british conspiracy. they win my last vote on ballot.

The LaRouchites (Citizens Electoral Council) always go to the bottom of my list & this year I had Julian Assange to deal with (he got spot 87).

MORE RESULTS
As widely anticipated, the Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce has romped home into the seat of New England in Saturday’s federal election, capturing 54.1 per cent of first preferences.
Runner-up was Independent Rob Taber with 14.26 per cent of the vote, followed by Country Labor’s Stephen Hewett (11.72 per cent), Independent Jamie McIntyre (6.77 per cent), Palmer United Party’s Phillip Girle (5.19 per cent), the Greens’ Pat Schultz (4.3 per cent), One Nation’s Brian Dettmann (1.67 per cent), Christian Democratic Party’s Aaron Evans (1.62 per cent) and Citizens Electoral Council’s Richard Witten (0.38 per cent).

 AND  Citizens Electoral Council candidate for Lyne Michael Gough said he enjoyed the election campaign.
“It really opened up a while new world,” he said.
“It was a gruelling campaign, hard work but worth the effort.”
Mr Gough’s vote count was 282 on preliminary figures.
While New World?  Whole New World?  Whichever… huh?

AND  Mr Taylor vied with nine other candidates for the seat. He gained 47,674 votes after preferences, defeating Labor candidate Michael Pilbrow ( pictured below) who polled 29,889 votes. […]  Of the other candidates, Adrian Van Der Byl of the Christian Democratic Party polled 1182 votes and Lindsay Cosgrove from the Citizens’ Electoral Council 1033 votes.

 

 

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