Letter to the Editor
In 1900 we inherited the English method of voting, First-Past-the-Post or one-man-one-vote, which the UK still has.
Sections 8 & 30 of An Act To Constitute The Commonwealth Of Australia 1900 (UK) 63 64 Victoria Cap 12, it is clear that each elector is limited to ONE VOTE.
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act – section 8
Qualification of electors
The qualification of electors of senators shall be in each state that which is prescribed by this constitution, or by the parliament, as the qualifications for electors of members of the House of Representatives; but in the choosing of senators each elector shall vote only once.
Commonwealth Of Australia Constitution Act – section 30
Until the Parliament otherwise provides, the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives shall be in each state that which is prescribed by the law of the state as the qualification of electors of the more numerous House of parliament of the state; but in choosing of members each elector shall vote only once.
Clearly each elector is only entitled to ONE VOTE for each of the two houses of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
The wording of OUR constitution was brought over to the Electoral Act.
Therefore each elector is not constitutionally bound to put anything other than a 1 (one) for that voter’s choice of his or her chosen candidate on a ballot paper. By consequential logic there is only one vote for each house and preferential voting is unconstitutional as it allows an unknown member of the public to use their “power” to make further votes for the voter, even although the voter is prohibited from doing so.
I do not know of anybody who has said by contract that if my candidate does not win you can pass my vote down the line. It is not only unconstitutional, it is fraudulent, unconscionable, and a means of sedition by a corrupt government against the candidate lawfully receiving the greater number of electors choice.
Albert Langer voted in an election using his 1,2,2,2,2,2 method and a court found it to be a formal vote, Little Johnny Howard made it illegal to tell anybody about this method even although it is a legitimate way to vote.
Len Clampett
NSW
