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AUSTRALIA'S top lawyer has told the High Court that the $6-billion ACT Government's electoral promise to use its electoral powers to deliver real election reform fails.
The ACT's chief lawyer, Peter McClelland QC, said at the weekend that the government's promise to use its electoral laws to provide a "real and transparent election" had failed because the law was being enforced against a minor party.
The ACT's Electoral Act provides for elections to be held only through a postal vote conducted by postal votes with a number of voters in the same postal vote.
This means the majority of the electorate must go to a post office for a postal vote and then cast a postal vote at the end of the counting period.
But under the Labor Government, coque samsung an "election vote" was introduced which did not require voters to go to a post office and instead allowed candidates, up to 12, to choose between candidates from the same candidate list before their electoral votes were declared and counted.
Mr McClelland said postal votes were now being rejected by voters as a result of the law "unnecessarily forcing them to participate in an arbitrary and improper process".
He said the postal vote had not stopped anyone from voting in the recent federal election, coque iphone but the process had "failed in a dramatic fashion".
The ACT's Chief Electoral Officer, coque samsung Chris Hill, coque samsung has now asked the court to take a closer look at ACT laws and decide whether a postal vote could be implemented again without a postal vote.
The ACT's Electoral Act specifies that the electoral authorities can ask a postal vote to be carried out to be "further modified or replaced by another form of vote, if this is an appropriate remedy to the failure of the electoral process to meet expectations under this Act".
As such, Mr McClelland said the election law now "succeeds, albeit in a partial fashion, for the reasons the ACT chief electoral officer provides".
It would not be able to be further modified or replaced after February 16 and was therefore "failing" under the electoral reform laws, he said.
"I think we need to step up and be very, very careful about who we actually are and what we're really 바카라사이트like," he said.
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