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Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat

Posted by Soulskill on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Brisbane Times notes that 'Julian Assange's Wikileaks Party has come under fire for directing its preferences to the Shooters and Fishers Party and the white nationalist Australia First Party ahead of both major parties and the Greens in the NSW Senate race. Australia First's policies include reducing and limiting immigration and "abolishing multiculturalism." The chairman of Australia First, Jim Saleam, is a former neo-Nazi who was convicted in the late 1980s of organizing a shotgun attack on the home of an Australian representative of the African National Congress. WikiLeaks candidates in NSW include human rights activist Kellie Tranter.' The Wikileaks Party blamed the outcome on administrative problems. This is drawing further criticism."

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  1. Re:Why wasn't this leaked by Wikileaks? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Preferences are public knowledge. It was out in the open - how do you think people know about it? Investigative reporting? In Australia? Heh.

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  2. All minor parties are teaming together by Yynatago · · Score: 5, Informative

    No surprise here. All the minor parties are doing the same thing. The Australian sex party is preferencing Pauline Hanson's Australia First Party ahead of Greens.

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    1. Re:All minor parties are teaming together by Liam+Pomfret · · Score: 4, Informative

      No surprise here. All the minor parties are doing the same thing.

      Some parties are. Not all of them. The Pirate Party in particular opted out of those deals, and allocated preferences according to a vote of the membership. The party has also published its preferencing process online, which you can read at http://pirateparty.org.au/2013/08/18/preferencing-statement-for-federal-election-2013/

  3. Below the line by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anyone who is actually voting for wikileaks will likely be well informed and voting below the line anyways.

    For those not familiar with australian voting, we have preferential instant runoff first past the pole voting.

    You can either vote "above the line," where you select ONE party, and that party decides how your preferences fall if they don't win a seat, or you can vote "below the line," where you number individual candidates "1, 2, 3.....".