the LNP has indicated it intends to move to optional preferential voting in state elections as well, if they win the state election in October.
“But wait… we can make it worse!” - LNP
If they do not get voted in this October, we still have every future election for years to come to worry about this happening if they manage to win.
On a side note, I didn’t even realise that the local government election was optional preferential voting. I even numbered all the boxes because that has been ingrained in me since I started voting. Learn something new everyday.
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