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Yeah, that video explains our Senate voting process almost exactly - each state gets a number of Senators, and you vote preferentially either at the party level
by stephen_g 8y ago
Yeah, that video explains our Senate voting process almost exactly - each state gets a number of Senators, and you vote preferentially either at the party level (about 15 - 30 choices and you can preference up to six), in which case the party decides which candidate gets the first votes, or you can preference every candidate in the whole state (can be over one hundred - the voting paper is comically large[1,2]!)
For the House of Representatives, each electorate is much smaller and parties only have one candidate each, so you only have five or six choices, and you preference all of them.
1. https://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/7/i/p/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gmpkck.png/1455006731044.jpg https://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/7/i/p/image.re...
2. http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7296/9569414534_b3ee06fd84.jpg http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7296/9569414534_b3ee06fd84.jp...