Online Poll-Based Party Seeks Election Win

schliz writes "Online poll-based political party Senator Online is looking for senate candidates to contest the next Australian Federal Election. The party does not have any policies or an official stance, and promises to conduct online votes on major issues and act in Parliament accordingly. It has already appointed its candidate for the state of New South Wales through an online recruitment campaign in which candidates had to receive a minimum of 100 endorsements — either via its website or Facebook 'fans' — and raise a minimum of $200. This will be Senator Online's second Federal Election. When it contested in 2007, it received between 0.05 and 0.09 percent of each state's votes."

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Re:So we let the trolls win?

[MightyMartian]

The problem with Libertarians is that you can see the platform and you quickly discover that Libertarians are a bunch of raving lunatics, hence the few elected. People would rather put up with the nebulous and vacuous platforms of the Republicans and Democrats than vote en masse for the likes Rand Paul (who has shown himself to be a right and proper Libertarian, racist and delusional).