Clive Palmer (Fairfax, Palmer United Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Prime Minister. The AEC sends written instructions to all polling booths in Australia, approximately seven days before an election, directing AEC staff to distribute preferences to two candidates chosen by the AEC, regardless of the number of votes by Australians for each candidate as shown on the ballot paper. Shouldn't the AEC be impartial? Will the government stop this biased practice? Why have an election if the AEC can decide, weeks before an election is held, who preferences will be distributed to? Is this really a democracy?

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