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NSW Electoral System Fail

Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics, Toomelah

Electoral commission computer steals 2230 New England votes

blankby RK CrosbyNovember 29, 2024

Every local government election conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission did not have their votes counted properly, with 30% of the New England votes a computer deemed to be informal able to be saved and counted.

Posted inGlen Innes, Investigation

Compromised data in Glen Innes Severn countback today

blankby RK CrosbyNovember 19, 2024

90 voters that were disenfranchised in Glen Innes Severn’s council election in September will again be ignored today.

Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics

All care, no responsibility: Minister ‘concerned’ but Electoral Commission denies problems

blankby RK CrosbyNovember 4, 2024

As the NSW Electoral Commission scrambles to defend its actions, the responsible minister has expressed ‘concern’ and kicked the problem to the tall grass of a parliamentary inquiry.

Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics

Moree Plains voting issues bigger than Toomelah

blankby RK CrosbyOctober 28, 2024

As we continue our investigation into what went wrong on election day in Toomelah, we found every single booth in the Moree Plains Shire Council election, as well as postal votes, had issues in the count.

Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics, Toomelah

The Toomelah in the Electoral System

blankby RK CrosbyOctober 21, 2024

Something went very wrong at Toomelah’s polling booth in the local government elections held on September 14. Like a canary in a coal mine, the abnormal election result at Toomelah may have revealed a much bigger problem state wide.

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