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Corrupt Elections
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The Frauding of Elections
Foreword
By Amy McGrath
This book is a
natural successor to her Frauding of Votes?1996
reprinted with a lengthy foreword by Bob Bottom in 2001. She
has gained the wide experience, manifest in the book,
through the manifold meetings, contacts and advocacy of the H.S.Chapman Socity, founded both in Australia (1996) and the
UK (1998) as a result of that book.
She believes the
monolith of the three man Australian Electoral Commission
has become too powerful, too arbitrary and too convoluted
towards the Commonwealth parliament for a body that runs the
only electoral roll used throughout the Commonwealth.
It also evinces
strange inconsistencies:
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It demands
fingerprint identification for anyone who enters its
head office in Canberra, but gives negative advice for
any legislation for identification for enrolment and
voting.
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It declared
that it runs fair and free election but never that it
runs readily transparent elections.
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It offers
public access to any information but the one most wanted
– small subdivisional rolls as they used to be in
police, stations, courts and libraries everywhere.
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It runs a
localised system that works well, but works to destroy
it for a centralised system that will divorce its
management from localised knowledge and supervision.
Behind the masks,
our electoral masters wear, hides a system so secretive,
malpractice and fraud can prosper.
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