Ditripar
6mo ago
For a vote in Australia to be valid, it has to number every box in order. If you just write a '1' in the box of your favourite candidate, your vote will not count.
Whoa really? Where I live there have been occasional rumblings about switching to preference voting, and I've mostly been agnostic about it. But this part seems like a negative, to me. If it's clear who someone meant to vote for, the vote should count.
I'm curious what the reasoning is here? Is this specific to Australia? Something to do with mandatory voting?
Ditripar
7mo ago
Ditripar
11mo ago
From the footnotes:
...and the British did what they always did: Invent a tax that didn't bring in significant revenue while antagonizing the natives...
Facing armoured columns carrying tax-free Belgian coffee through the Ardennes, the British decided that fighting through the Ardennes three times in as many decades was enough and they'd rather not enforce the tax, thank you very much.
Any idea where I can read more about this tax (and the British Occupation Zone more generally)?
November 5th, actually. The last of the presidential primaries are in June.
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