This is not something our electoral system is designed to account for. There is nothing stopping a bunch of Zionists from registering a political party called 'Free Palestine' and direct all their preferences to a cause at complete odds with what voters expect they will be supporting.

I bet there'd be some sort of ramifications if someone registered the name 'new libs' and redirected all preferences to Labor or Greens.

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[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I think the AEC (and related State bodies) has codes it must enforce under its legislation, anything outside those codes it cannot enforce and would be going beyond it's remit to attempt to. The agency won't have the latitude that the judiciary have, nor should they.

Although these cases all build on the reality that the AEC's rules may be inadequate for the multitude of bad faith partisans infecting Australian democracy.

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[–] Zagorath 2 points 2 months ago

The fake Chinese AEC signage seems like something they could take action on but chose not to. Section 329 of the Electoral Act makes it an offence to publish any material that is "likely to mislead or deceive an elector in relation to the casting of a vote". Ultimately it would be for a court to decide, but they certainly could have at least tried to make the case, if they had wanted to.

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