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twistedd•

I was a scrutineer for the Liberals at this election and I thought I should point out that the AEC have a rock-solid system to ensure that no tampering occurs.

This depends on AEC officials not opening a ballot-box before it has been signed off on by a scrutineer and a Officer-In-Charge (OIC).

At my booth in Canberra an over-zealous official wanted to get into the box a bit early but he was stopped before he could do anything untoward thank goodness.

This issue is likely to be nothing more than that. No 'tampering' (which has malicious undertones) but instead there is likely just to be some procedures which were, regrettably, not followed.

I'll be interested to know what the High Court of Australia (sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns) says about this.

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greendestiny•

Well that's the most interesting thing that has ever happened in Boothby.

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mtimhoff•

We just want to have every Boothby counted correctly!

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Sylveran-01Another Bogan from the Central Coast•

OMG! Liberals interfering with the election process? shock horror!

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glengyronTeamAustralia Vice Captain•

I don't think the claim is that they were Liberals.

It's that two boxes of votes were poured into another box, and they're unsure where that box then went.

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castroboy•

Agreed- the outcome of this is not intended to change the election result, but to investigate how the error happened in the first place and prevent it from happening again.

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