
electoral reform 1 (Public Board)
You shouldn't change any of the voting systems you have in place now. The minute you get voting machines you open the country to fraud of all kinds. The US is an example of that but also the people that count and supervise the voting are very important. In the US, our entire election infrastructure has been infiltrated by bad actors bought by the Democrat party. Your country doesn't allow outside groups to be involved with the vote in any way and you should keep it that way.
Is the AEC as trusted as the article says? They have the systems in place but do you trust the people running it? Maybe they aren't perfect, but are they somewhat honest? After seeing what happened in the US over the years with just about everything I trust nothing anymore.
5-10 years ago I would've said yes absolutely. Naivety of youth perhaps but to that point I had had no red flags raised, and I had had a positive experience personally. Years ago, an agricultural association that I was a member of had a very important and very divisive decision coming up, for members to vote on in person. So an officer of the Victorian Electoral Commission (Victorian not Australian because this association was under the jurisdiction of the state of Victoria) was brought in to conduct the vote. The missus and I and the outlaws, all members, went down to Victoria to vote. Without getting into the details because they are not particularly interesting, I can tell you that that officer conducted the vote scrupulously. There was no chance that the result was not legitimate. The non-attending "losers" (who could vote by proxy) accepted the result without much fuss when assured by attendees that the result was legit.
But now? I have mentioned previously the relaxing of restrictions on postal voting and early voting. In fact it seems to me that all forms of early voting are encouraged. I have also mentioned the trials of electronic voting. These worry me. I assume the individuals are ok, being very well paid public servants, and that they are well-meaning if misguided. But I don't know for certain. Any connection of voting with computers is toxic but perhaps that is more visceral to me as a programmer than it is to a non-expert who in my experience all think computers are wonderful and amazing.