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  1. WARNING: #Elections in #SouthAustralia rigged against #minorParties.

    They've had 4 yrs to fix this. Noone at the #ElectoralCommision (#ECSA) has fixed #misleading instructions that caused 70,000 #votes for minorParties to be binned.

    If you vote for a #minorParty you *must* number as many above-the-line as possible. Following their top instruction and numbering one party, means your vote is #wasted if that party doesn't get in.

    Govts in #Australia quietly abolished #PartyPreferences #post2016.

  2. One of the #corporateMedia's reasons for existing is to turn #Australia into a polarised country with #twoTribes at war – Liberal and Labor.

    Over time they've lampooned #thirdParties, into non-existence (see the emotionally driven attacks on #RickyMuir (2015) that saw a perfectly sound, *and revealing* #PartyPreferences method of #voting get abolished! Also attacks on #AustralianDemocrats (late 90s) who were secured important concessions to the #GST, that everyone benefits from today), or…(1/2)