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Electorate 2

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The following table contains electoral information about selected American and Australian States.
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Code Type Electorate sq.km Population
Electors 		Remarks
WA Federal Division of Kalgoorlie 2,295,534 80,773 Goldfields
SA Federal Division of Sydney 44 125,421 First European settlement in Australia at 1788
USA US State New York (state) 54,555 19,571,216 Comments
USA US State California 163,696 30,940,231 Goldfields
USA US State Alaska 1,723,337 733,391
NT Territory Division of Solomon 337 71,888
NT Territory Division of Lingiari 1,352,371 74,050 Almost all of Northern Territory
NSW Federal Division of Parkes 393,413 109,133 Namesake "Father of Federation, Premier"
QLD Federal Division of Kennedy 567,377 114,486 Namesake surveyor & explorer, Irish name
VIC Federal Division of Grey 908,595 ???,??? Early colonial Governor.
AUS Federal Division of Bradfield 101 108,575 Paul Fletcher MHR MP
AUS Federal Division of Maranoa 729,897 117,284 David Littleproud MHR MP [1]
AUS Federal Division of Bennelong 60 115,030 Sortable not working for some reason :-( :-(
USA US State North Dakota 70,706 783,926 Small US State
AUS Federal Division of Fowler 69 108,517 Local beats "parachute candidate"
AUS Federal Division of Richmond 2,148 118,652 A geographical name based on a person
USA US State Texas 268,596 30,503,301

See Australian Electoral Commission See [[1]] makes one head spin :-(

Nomenclature

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Federal and State members of parliament like to use the initials MP which does not distinguish Federal and State jurisdictions.
Your writer likes to use MHR (Member House of Representative) and MLA (Member Legislative Assembly) respectively. The upper houses are called Senator for Federal and MLC (Member Legislative Council) Respectively.

The Australian parliamentary houses are so named because this was copied from the American system.

Electorate Namesake & Heritage

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Selected Electoral Divisions

Seat Namesake Heritage Remarks
Division of Kennedy Edmund Kennedy Explorer and surveyor Abraham Lincoln was a surveyor for a time
Surveyors need to meticulous in their work
Division of Parkes Sir Henry Parkes Premier of State of NSW, "Father of Federation"
Division of Bennelong Woollarawarre Bennelong Aboriginal befriended by Arthur Phillip
Division of Phillip Arthur Phillip Captain of the First Fleet and first Governor of New South Wales

since abolished

Division of Grey Sir George Grey Early colonial governor
Division of Solomon Vaiben Louis Solomon 21st Premier of SA when SA controlled NT
Division of Sydney British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend,
1st Viscount Sydney.		 First European settlement in Australia
Division of Richmond Richmond River and Richmond Valley
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond		 Town of Richmond (UK) has a royal residence
Division of Bradfield John Job Crew Bradfield Engineer; designer and builder
of Sydney Harbour Bridge		 Paul Fletcher (politician) MHR MP
Division of Maranoa Maranoa River David Littleproud Leader of National Party of Australia [2]

RCV and Donald J Trump and Voting Reform

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  • DJT Wants to reduce bureaucracy noting that American Voting Sytems are very bureaucratic;
  • DJT wants paper ballots, saves cost of voting machines or their update;
  • DJT wants same day voting; not possible in Australia due to vast distances involved;
    • need postal votes
    • need pre-poll votes
    • need travelling voting booths for remote areas
    • need travelling voting booths for hospitals and retirement villages
    • American Voting system desiged in pack animal and horse and buggy days - few railways or canals.
  • Many Representives like Gerrymanders because they like their seats to be safe ones. Quite Understandable.

It is noted that Australia has a common roll for federal, state and local election; plus IIRC some unions, It is noted that Australia has similar voting systems for federal, state and local elections. Bacause Australia has two competing right-of-centre parties they HAVE to have RCV to avoid harmful "three-party" contests. Thus RCV was introduced in the 1920s.

RCV is used in a few countries:

  • Australia, especially
    • Canberra
    • Victoria
    • Upper Houses
    • Lowerhouses
  • Ireland
  • Papua New Guinea

IMO, the ideal voting system is a blend of the above.

In Australia, in addition:

  • voting is on a Saturday which is a day off
  • an improvement would be to operate Public Transport on a Weekday timetable
  • "Election Sausages" (Hot Dogs) are often on sale at may polling booths which are run by charities
  • It is not unlawful to bringo umbrellss abd chairs for protection against bad weather while waing in line.
  • Based on these criteria create a voting system using RCV (aka IRV, etc)

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Election Financing

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This chapter has been transferred to User:MountVic127/RCV Election Financing.

The basic cost of running elections in most counties such as America and Australia is spent by the state.
Additional donated funds are raised by partisan interest.
Are any donated funds spent on for say non-partisan interests?
for example for Disability Access such as:
ramps rather than stairs at polling booth entrances;
seats so that voters do hot have to stand for hours waiting queues;
guards to protect polling boxes from sabotage such as with fire;
Public Transport to operate to weekday timetable even though Voting Day on Tuesday Declared a public holiday.
School Holiday on Voting Day allows yellow school buses to feed polling places often located at schools.
AFAIK, bipartisan boards supervising can allocate donated funds to worthy causes as listed above.
Some states forbid such ammenities as "Election Sausages" because they claim Hot-Dogs to be a form of "Treating" which is considered to be bribery :-(
In Australia, the non-partisan Electoral Commission is gradually making polling booths wheelchair compatible, probably by paying halls and things to install ramps, etc.
IIRC it may have been in California where local Councils wouldn't install wheelchair ramps at kerbside; so the agitators took matters into their own hands and installed them themselves. :-) :-)
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To pay for these let there be a tax on PAC, and Super PACs.
To honour Abraham Lincoln who in 1863 chose the 1435mm gauge for the Pacific Railroad, let the tax be a multiple of 14.35% such as 28.70% or 43.05%
Note that 1435mm gauge is the most common and standard gauge used by about 62$ and growing proportion of the world railways.

Amongst other things (in 2024) this gauge is in use or will soon be use in capital cities such as:

Region A B C D E F G H
Middle East: Jerusalem Mecca Medina
     
Middle East: Cairo Riyadh Tehran Badhdad Ankara
         
Middle East Damascus Oman Qatar Abu Dhabi
       
Africa Ghana Dodoma Abuja Monrovia
Asia Beijing Seoul, Pyongyang
South-East Asia Hanoi
Great Britain London Glasgow Swansea
Europe Paris Madrid Warsaw, Berne Vienna Rome Amsterdam
America Washington DC Mexico City Panama City
     
Australia Canberra Sydney Melbourne, Brisbane Adelaide Perth Darwin
             
Returning Officers to report the proportion of constituents who actually voted.

Australia's Secret War

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In support:

How (some) unionists sabotaged Our troops in World War II.


Every major Australian warship was targeted by strikes, go-slow and sabotage at home. Australian soldiers fighting inn New Guinea and the Pacific went without food, radar equipment and ammunition because of union strikes.

Waterside workers disrupted locing of supplies to the troops and pilfered from ships' cargoes and soldiers's personal effects. Other strikes by railway workers, iron workers, coal miners, and even munitions workers and life-raft builders, badly impeded Australi's war efforts.

Descendent of some of these union(s) including the CFMEU which has been put into administration in 2024 because of criminal and unsavoury behaviour.

Book by Hal Colebatch (writer) published by Quadrant Books a divisiob of Quadrant


In Opposition:

See [3]

Compulsion

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Since the Australian and State electoral commissions go to a lot of trouble to make it easier to vote, it is not unreasonable to insist on compulsary registration and compulsary voting. There a small funds if voters fail to do either.

There is no "Same Day" registration since electoral staff including 100,000 temporary staff, since the officials are extremely busy on election day. This rush hour can be avoided by having pre-poll and [[postal voting voting. Trump is wrong to advocate same day registration.

If he does not like the extra cost of prepoll and postal voting, let the massive partisan donations be taxed to pay for non-partisan tasks.

If broke then fix it

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In Australia, using the Westminster system, you can win even without having a majority of the popular vote.
In Australia there is still a debate about Voter ID.
In Australia in November 2024, there are currently moves by the big parties to control and restrict election funding.
Minor parties complain about this unholy alliance; your writer disagrees because the RCV system allows minor parties and independents to get elected.
In America, using the Electoral College system, you can win even without having a majority of the popular vote.
In America, in some state(s) you can use a gun licence as Voter ID, but not government issued college or school ID Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ [David.Littleproud.MP@aph.gov.au Maranoa]
  2. ^ David Littleproud
  3. ^ Secret War against
  4. ^ ASW Book Disagree
  5. ^ BallotPedia
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