At 13:37 +1000 8/8/13, Andy Farkas wrote: >It seems the political parties are harvesting personal information using >a pretty deceptive method of tricking you with postal votes: > <http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=389752> >And to top it off: >"The Rudd Labor government tried to change the rules in 2010, proposing >that forms had to be returned to the AEC directly and prohibiting written >material (i.e. political advertising) being sent alongside the forms. The >Coalition opposed those changes, and watered-down amendments were passed >instead."
APF drew this scam to the Electoral Commissioner's attention the last two times around, in 2010 and 2007 (as did Crikey): http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/AEC-100723.pdf The Electoral Commissioner says he can't do a thing about it: http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/AEC-Reply-100723.pdf It's another instance of the people we appoint as our agents, i.e. our elected representatives in parliaments, acting in their own interests and not those of the principal, us. Now would be a good time for people to complain to the politicians when they're out on the hustings, kissing babies and knocking on doors. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
