tbc - I think David's point is that if you leave the period at 7 days instead of an immediate cutoff, then the system is less open to fraud - that would not be discovered until after the election.

Then if it is discovered, what do you do? Tip people out of office? I understand that at the election these 100,000 will have to show up with proof they live where they say and are who they say, but this gives them what .. 5 weeks or so to get that together.

If you reach voting age or move or just can't be bothered to enroll, that's your choice, to have some lobby group trying to round up and harvest votes by enrolling potential voters of a particular bent, for a particular outcome smells of deceit.

Do they also go out looking for disenfranchised voters outside the political neighborhood they inhabit?

Is it just ALP voters they are looking for?

I doubt they'd p*ss on a conservative voter if they were on fire, from what I've seen and heard of geddup.

Sorry, maybe I just have doubts about a lobby group that is so obviously politically biased. I guess it's a way for the ALP to have yet another angle, like unions, out there working on their behalf but not so easily identifiable.

Why did they leave it till this election and not do this at the last .. well there's the crux of the matter, it's because they know this time there is a serious chance the ALP will be tipped out, and that is the motivation, to try to tip the scales.

Whatever it takes eh.

Did your special friend Alan Jones inspire this diatribe against the integrity of the High Court? As for Get Up! being 'American-style', the concept of message boards originated in the US, so Online Opinion is American-style - which begs the question: Why do denigrate Online Opinion?

Why did GetUp! wait until now?
I would assume that GetUp, which is one of the few entities which
look after our interests, had to wait until it had sufficient support
from the community to go ahead with the challenge.

Is this article by David Flint another attempt by vested interests to get rid of Australian Democracy? What's left of it, that is.

Amicus... I find GetUp both particularly shrill at times, and very quiet throughout the Rudd years, and have no interest in defending them at all.

I sometimes elect to support some of their campaigns though.

Mainly because they seem to fulfil the role that politicians might once have thought was theirs, but now have no idea what they are there for, beyond the super and pigsnout feeding frenzy.

Rather like I am looking forward to the Dick Smith TV special, something that Tony 'have as many children as you like' Bourke should be doing, but has singularly failed to make any attempt at so far.

Now, you say this "I understand that at the election these 100,000 will have to show up with proof they live where they say and are who they say"... indeed, I understand that too.

And I would have no problem with producing my ID before voting to help prevent fraud... the ALP mantra of 'vote early-vote often' being at the forefront of my mind.

If we all did that, and were struck off the roll as we voted, by some electronic means, how hard would that be to organise?

Geoff Davies might be kidding himself, but few people would believe that GetUp!is anything but another branch of the ALP Left.

urr... ALP Left? What's that?

You mean the pro-development Tanner, the pro-NSCP Senator Jones, the deep red socialist Gillard?

Please, spare the funny jokes.

There is no ALP Left left.

Voting Green is the only way Left now.