A political party with a deliberately misleading name has been successfully registered for the Victorian election, aiming to redirect left-wing votes towards parties on the right.

This is not something our electoral system is designed to account for. There is nothing stopping a bunch of Zionists from registering a political party called ‘Free Palestine’ and direct all their preferences to a cause at complete odds with what voters expect they will be supporting.

I bet there’d be some sort of ramifications if someone registered the name ‘new libs’ and redirected all preferences to Labor or Greens.

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    The sad thing is we all know this will actually work, too. So many voters are woefully uneducated about what they’re voting for, even if it’s a mainstream party.