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How To Vote - Informal
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I've worked on several elections as an electoral officer and last time around as a supervisor at the count of a nearby electoral division.
You shouldn't assume that the idea of voting 1 and leaving everything else blank is a protest vote. The process is that all votes are initially scanned for legitimacy. That is the vote is checked that all boxes are filled. So if, for example, there are 5 candidates, all five boxes have to be filled 1 through 5. If not, the vote immediately goes into an informal pile. If you vote [1] Greens and then level the rest blank, the vote doesn't ever get allocated to the Greens. No one cares who the vote was for....its informal and that's all that matters.
There are no official figures about where informal votes appeared to be for. So its not a protest vote, its a non-vote.
Additionally, remember that most candidates get some reimbursement from the treasury for each vote they get. Each ELIGIBLE vote earns the party about $2.80. An informal vote is not counted in this.
So voting as Paul suggested in the opening post would actually penalise the Greens, which I personally think is a good thing but probably isn't Paul's aim.