Larissa Waters Stands Up for Queensland

[Melbcity]

THE STOLEN SENATE ELECTION

In 2007, The Green's Candidate Larissa Waters should have won the Queensland sixth Senate spot.

The only reason she was not declared elected is that the distortion in the system used to count the vote denied her supporters the right of representation and as such failed to reflect the voters intentions

[Melbcity]

A simple analysis and count of the vote highlights the problems associated with the way the Australian Senate Electoral system is implemented.

If you exclude all candidates, other then the last seven standing (3 ALP, 3 Liberals and 1 Green) and redistribute the vote according to existing procedures, Larissa Waters would have and should have been elected ahead of the ALP number three candidate.

[Melbcity]

If we can not have an accurate preferential counting system then we might as well adopt the proposal advocated by Western Australia's Political Science Doctoral candidate, William Bowie, and implement a party list system.