For this podcast Ben interviews two scrutineers about their experience in the recounts: Adelaide, a Liberal scrutineer from Bradfield, and KJ, an independent scrutineer from Goldstein. Ben also discusses the recount procedures he saw in Bradfield last week and the latest count updates from Monday afternoon.
- Ben’s blog post about visiting the Bradfield recount
- The podcast features the song ‘It’s a Draw’ by Nick Craft.
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Has a seat ever ended in a draw, as in both candidates got the same number of TPP/TCP votes? I remember in the Alice Springs mayoral election it went to a recount and the margin was two votes.
I’m not sure, but what happens then? I’m assuming the candidate with a higher primary is elected, like in DOP.
Victorian upper house seat of Eumemmerring did in the 80’s, the returning Officer then pulled a name from a hat to determine the winner
@Captain Moonlight It was Nunawading Province, but yeah. They eventually redid the election for the seat after deciding a tie was dubious enough (with enough margin of error in the counting) to request a by-election. Probably a good thing too, given that I think a lucky dip is an especially unfair way to decide who makes government.
Can’t see the player?
Sorry, player is in there now.
At least the scrutineers are professional about it. There was a seat once involving Clive Palmer, or whatever he was calling himself at the time; his scrutineers were shambolic, arguing with the counters, challenging everything, basically turning it into a circus.
If Bradfield ends at 2-3-4, I expect it to end in Court. There is more than a non-zero chance of a revote. Anything north of 10 it gets trickier.
The fact that we are talking about this is emblematic of the times. Ten years ago, the Liberal candidate was getting mid-60s primaries, and here we are.
@craig it will end up in court either way. the libs wont let it go without a fight and it depends if boele has the resources/will to fight it in court if she loses