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December 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Australian Electoral Commission scrutineers rechecking ballot paper votes
for House of Representatives seat of Grayndler, at AEC Alexandria offices
in Sydney, as counting continues in key seats following 2010 federal
election last weekend. Picture: Cameron Richardson
Source: The Australian
AS MANY as 16,000 Australians got away with voting more than once in the 2010 razor’s edge federal poll.
Dozens may have voted three times or more, but only three copped a slap on the wrist.
The Australian Electoral Commission has admitted to a Senate committee its own records make it difficult to tell who is flouting electoral laws. And little can be done if voters deny it.
Of the 16,189 people the AEC suspected of multiple votes, 5211 denied it, and 80 per cent of the 1458 who confessed were either new voters or didn’t understand how to vote.
It was decided 7925 were errors, many caused when voters with similar names were recorded under the same name by accident.
The AEC had very real concerns about 55 voters who appeared to have cast three or more votes.
But the police would only agree to investigate 19 and issued just three police cautions, despite a maximum penalty of 12 months’ jail.
Electoral Commissioner Ed Killesteyn told the committee the offence was hard to prove as there was no real evidence if a person denied the charge.
“The difficulty in all of these cases is around whether there is appropriate evidence that there was an intent and, indeed, a practice of multiple voting,” he said.
“That has always been the issue for us.”
There have been calls for the introduction of photo ID.
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