The Australian federal election for 2022 has been set for Saturday May 21, 2022 of which Australian’s have the opportunity to stir-the-pot and vote in minor freedom-friendly parties and freedom friendly independent candidates.

Interestingly the AEC polling booths opened on May 9, 2022 for early voting for those “eligible”. I wonder if those votes are sealed on only get countered on election day?

The majority of electoral votes forms the government, but what happens when neither Labor or Liberal receive the majority, they will have to negotiate with independents in order to form a government. If we make this happen, it will send a strong message that we the people are not happy with how our “government” has been handling public affairs.

Understanding the Preferential Voting System

It’s important for Australian’s to understand how the preferential voting system works, as this is how we elect the government we want, and how we send a message to the politicians that we don’t approve of the job they’ve been doing.

The Australian federal elections use a preferential voting system where voters are required to:

mark a preference for every candidate on the green ballot paper (House of Representatives)
mark a preference for a designated number of preferences on the white ballot paper (Senate)

How Preferential Votes are counted?

The following is a MUST WATCH short educational video by Topher Fields who explains how the preferential voting system works through using his marbles!

ORIGINAL – removed

The AEC made Topher remove the video above, so he made a new one – see below: