Kevin Bonham
are ballots which are incomplete, incorrect, or where the voter can be identified. For example, if instead of numbering candidates you drew a big old dick and balls on your vote, you’d be cocking up your ballot (pun intended) and casting an informal vote.
Polling analyst tweeted about how people could still do informal votes over the phone. He said they could happen because you’re speaking to a real (but anonymous) person.
The Australian Electoral Commission then weighed in on the dick and balls of it all in a reply.
There you have it — people legit phoned up and asked to draw penises on their ballots. The sympathy I feel for those poor AEC phone operators knows no limits.
You also have to wonder exactly how specific people were being with their requests — are we talking girths and lengths?
The AEC did go into a little more detail about the artistic license people take with their ballot papers.
“You should produce ballots with pre-printed dick-and-balls with a box that can be marked by the voter to indicate their preference,” one person suggested.
“Surely this would trivialise the (sometimes very elaborate) work voters put into drawing pictures on their ballot papers,” the AEC replied.
The AEC also seemed to suggest voters who really wanted to draw some dicks and balls should undertake it as a quarantine hobby.
I mean, the AEC is right. Drawing while you’re in COVID-19 iso is a great hobby.
There’s nothing like drawing a calming, repetitive pattern to take your mind off being sick, even if that repetitive pattern is dicks and balls. Just don’t do it on your ballot papers please!
A lot of people asking me about informal votes in COVID phone voting. The phone voting is live operator (anonymised) so voters can deliberately vote informal.
— Kevin Bonham (@kevinbonham) May 31, 2022
People legitimately asked to do this…
— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022
Surely this would trivialise the (sometimes very elaborate) work voters put into drawing pictures on their ballot papers.
— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022
As formality and drawing a little picture are usually unrelated, this is entirely possible. Our advice for voters at the time was that the drawing might be a fun craft activity to undertake while in isolation.
— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022
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