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Australian conservative illegal election trickery.

"In America you have rabid GOP vote rigging. In Australia..."

Former acting Victorian state director Simon Frost agrees signs were
designed to imitate Australian Electoral Commission corflutes


Josh Taylor
@joshgnosis

Wed 6 Nov 2019 14.32 AEDT
Last modified on Wed 6 Nov 2019 16.27 AEDT


The former acting Victorian state director for the Liberal party, Simon Frost, right, agreed the Chinese language signs were ‘similar to the AEC colours’.
Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP

The former acting Victorian state director for the Liberal party has admitted in court that signs written in Chinese at polling booths on election day were designed to look like official Australian Electoral Commission signage.

The full federal court is hearing the challenges to the elections of Liberal MP Gladys Liu in Chisholm and the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, in Kooyong over three days. The cases have been brought against the two candidates by retired social worker Naomi Hall, and unsuccessful independent Kooyong candidate Oliver Yates.

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The signs that were used in seven electorates in Victoria said, according to an English translation, that the “correct way to vote” was to put 1 next to the Liberal candidate.

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The hearing continues.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/06/liberal-official-admits-chinese-language-signs-were-meant-to-look-like-they-came-from-aec