Talk:Electoral system of Australia/Archive 2016

Is this information up to date ?
"Voters can vote for the Senate in one of two ways. They can number all the candidates, as they would with a House of Representatives ballot: but since there may be 50 or 60 candidates on the ballot paper, few voters do this. This is called below the line voting. Or they can simply write "1" in a box indicating the party for which they wish to vote. This is called above the line voting. More than 95% of voters cast their votes above the line."

Is this information up-to-date ? Isn't it also now possible to number the groups "above the line", in order of the voter's preference for the various parties? Eregli bob (talk) 08:43, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * As far as i'm aware, and, no it isn't. I don't know on what basis you decided to ask this here (ie: reading something to the contrary), but i'm not sure if talkpages are the place for these sorts of general educational questions. Timeshift (talk) 12:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It sounds like Eregli bob is confusing the Senate with the New South Wales Legislative Council which (from the voter's point of view) made the above change a decade ago. Timrollpickering (talk) 13:26, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Another instance of out of date information is in the section for "Alternative allocation methods for Senate". The second paragraph ends with "An estimated 95% of all votes are cast 'above the line'.[23]" The citation #23 is no longer valid, "23. Your vote and the Senate: The Big Switch". The link is to a now defunct website, a page loads but it has nothing to do with what is being cited. --203.10.111.130 (talk) 22:52, 7 January 2016 (UTC)