our government wants to make it harder to vote

[miriam_e]

We never know when a federal election is to be called -- that's the way of it in Australia. It seems the dickheads in power just get it all their way. They get to call an election when it looks most likely to them that they'll win.

Now the monsters in power have decided they so distrust the voters that the usual week for voter registrations has been cut down to less than a single day! Voter registration will close at 8pm on the very day the new election will be called. The net effect will be to exclude large numbers of young and itinerant voters.

Demand that this cynical law be revoked.
The politicians won't fix it... YOU have to fix it.
Clobber the slimy weasels.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontLetThemStopYouFromVoting

Comments

[qu-is.livejournal.com]

Not knowing a deadline means people don't prioritize this little update of information - sometimes being busy, overseas or if you have changed addresses a lot in the last four years this will also make it hard to know what your status is - and a week at least gives a few days to double check and fix any errors. Where as 8 hours? what kind of a totalitarian joke is that.