Why do Australians vote with Pencils.

Can i come live over there my ANZAC b ro , they gone nutty here ,the speaker of the House ,told the prime minister to park her generous bottm the other day or be thrown out .Basically 'prime Minister ShutTFUp!

the ALP promoted a Liberal Mr Sleeper to Speaker of the House to gain a vote for the Minority government.The Liberal \Nats still own him.

Gillard want's to be President.

Poo you not!

 

yes not only pencils but the cardboard boxs with plastic electrical ties as padlocks.

Hope its not raining in May,hey could we have a General Election on May Day?

The Government of Gillard is a Dead Government Vomiting LIe after Lie after Lie ,lie ,lie ,lie its that bad I think that Julia Gillard is a Pathological LIAR!

in the medical sense of the term ,She needs help!

 

Oh, so close....but so wrong.

Currently, in the US, only about 30% of polling places in the US use "electronic" voting machines.

The issue in F[l]orida was not with an "electronic" voting machine. It was a Votomatic punched-card system, in which the voter uses a stylist to push out a "chad" for the person they want to vote for. However, because the "chad" may become loose on their own at times, by State law, the vote can not be counted if the "chad" is not completely detached.

In Oregon, we use a vote by mail system which seems to work very well.

 

Have you ever used a pencil ?

All i want is a pen ,not to much to ask.!

 

BOB CARR for Prime Minister ,NO over my dead body .BOB CARR a proven corrupt former premier of NSW.Right -Wing Sussex street NSW ALP maggot!

ELECTION NOW!

End the Debacle !

the ALP has Imploded so therefore can not rule!

Its not a political party anymore Kiddies,the political Duopoly has fallen in Australia ,GOODDYYYY!

Julia Gillard shows she thinks her entire cabinet is stupid and she is right ,so off to Bob Carr a political dinosaur at best ,yes a freind of the faceless men of Sussex str Sydney .putrid bunch them kiddies not nice people the Right Wing NSW branch of the ALP.Dispicable cronyism is the right description.

Full to the brim with blacklegged scabs,for other peoples maybe not in the Know ,imagine the most corrupt Trade Union turn it into a Political Party and you have the ALP.

Bob Carr comes from and is now Foriegn minister UNELECTED,Imposed by Fiat,is a leader of the most corrupt union based wing of the ALP.

ELECTION v\s REVOLUTION see my point ?

I can't remember a NON ELECTED FORIEGN MINISTER BEFORE ,its a first .And as foriegn minister he could be the first NON-ELECTED PRIME MINISTER of Australia .Factional transferr to the lower house ,Factional leadership challenge and hey presto ,PRIME MINISTER BOB CARR!

 

You just want to score a free pen every election! Lols!!

 

ask not what your country can do for you ask how many free pens you can pinch.lol

 

Just saying now that both the NSW and Qld branches of the ALP have been politically and electorally decimated,yes the federal IMPLICATION IS THAT ITS CALLED THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY,not the Queensland Labor Party or the NSW,

For all overseas friends of democrcay ,in order for the ALP to now survive economically the Victorious National Liberal Party,will hand over about $4 million in electoral taxpayer funds even though the ALP didn't get enough Votes to qualify.

OUTRAGEOUS !

They needed 10seats to Qualify they look like getting 7to8 yet the Corruptly recieve $4 million ,no kidding .

The ALP,is stealing with the full agreement from the LNP Queensland government, Taxpayers hard earned.

 

Its time again the pencils are being shaved ,whats the alternative more of the same inane debacle called political life of the Gillard catastrophy,slinking from scandal to scandal ,manipulating puplic opinion where possible any stinking Oppurtunist deal for them is a good deal the only thing is stay in po=wer at any cost ,and then it gets even worse ,a absolute Unmitigated FAILURE the divied infighting crumbling and taking us with it Gillard disaster ,Goodbye ALP good riddence to bad rubbish !

Oh and to top it off ,Australian Soldiers Unecessarily in Harms way every dead soldier from now on is the Personal responsibilities of the Gillard Cabinet ,with the unelected Bob C arr included.Any Australian vote for Bob Carr to be the Foriegn Minister last election ,ANSWER =NO. undemocratic or what ,jobs for the NSW right Wing faceless men.thanks jobs for the boys continues.no nsw ALP left but Jobs for the boys a continuing tradition

 

I suspect the Coalition will win it. I see O'Farrell is slashing worker compensation in NSW.

And so it starts.

This time, hopefully, the attack on working people will see a bit of a wake-up so next election after the one-term Coalition govt Labor will have found itself again and working people will have an alternative to the neolibs on both sides of the current parliament.

 

Its on again as the shavings fall and the erasers come out at the Polling Booths.

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Bit off the mark with the predictions,as the ALP ,Another Liberal Party comes to be.

 

One thing at a time I always say. It's drifting about in search of a set of principles at the moment. A good belting in the federal election might be a fair start to the ALP realising what it should be and that's a party that has concrete principles and can offer an alternative to the Tories and the Agrarian Socialists. Anyway I'm hoping that will be the silver lining. I wonder if the Tories and their Coalition mates will go easy to secure a first term and then in the second term launch a full frontal assault on working people in Australia. It's only a matter of timing as far as I can see. Abbbott will have to respond to his masters' orders.

 

Australians vote with pencils because they tried voting with boomerangs but when they threw them away they just kept coming back.

 

Lol!!! Good one! The thread title did sound like the lead in to a good joke. I was thinking along the lines of getting the lead out of their asses but never bothered fixing it up nice and pretty.

 

That depends. If they are counting those votes via electronic character readers or some other older non-high tech method, that could be a reason. I don't know your age, but when I was in grade school, they tested us for knowledge levels once per year, and our answers had to be entered by a specific type of pencil: the old No. 2 lead pencil.