The most fraudulent Australian election ever? By David Flint.

While I had to use a QR code to get into a polling station building for a recent local government election, once inside, I voted without having to prove my identity.

Nor will there be any checks in the [upcoming] federal election, not even the elementary safeguard of a simple commonplace electronic link between the forty-odd polling stations in my electorate. This would be to stop people voting up to forty times. …

Cleaning up voter fraud should, for obvious reasons, be a Coalition priority. Inexplicably, it rarely is.

But under pressure from Pauline Hanson, the Morrison government introduced a voter ID bill, but only in the October 2021 session, far too late.

Labor claims this would disadvantage the indigenous. This is insulting. The indigenous drive, bank, and use health and government services as much as anybody else. …

There is a new factor which significantly increases the incentive for fraud.

This is because nine more Coalition seats have been targetted by well-funded global warmist ‘independents’, carbon copies of Warringah’s Zali Steggall, who all pose, I believe unconvincingly, as disaffected Liberals. They could win some seats or, through preferences, pass them over to Labor. In my view, they are more likely to support Labor in a hung parliament …

Apart from fraud, the Coalition has to cope with biased media. Again, the Morrison government has itself to blame not only for thinking that appointing Ms Buttrose would solve anything, but for so obsequiously crawling to the ABC over funding. …

The author’s wish:

Apart from independents, it is possible that the ‘freedom parties’, UAP, One Nation and the Liberal Democrats will attract a good number of votes, even penetrating the House. In a hung parliament, there is an outside chance that the election could return not just another rubber stamp House but rather the real lower house that the House of Commons still is and our founders intended.

As our society becomes increasingly less high trust, we are going to have to start insisting on voter ID.