Constitutional lawyer, Professor David Flint, writes that, "Fraud is an intrinsic and disgraceful part of the Australian electoral system". In response to the weak argument against voter ID - that certain sections of Australian society would be disenfranchised - he points out that ALL Australians have always needed ID to access government services, banking services, and all manner of areas in everyday life, including health, welfare and so on. They already have the necessary cards and documents to prove they are who they say they are.

The three major areas of fraud are: multiple voting, voting for someone else especially the dead, as well as fake enrolments, "probably the greatest cause of fraud". Multiple voting was made easier by Hawke's reforms to 'make voting easier', according to Flint.

What is "desperately needed" are not only reasonable ID requirements, but also "a digital roll (not digital voting)" whereby when a name is crossed off at one booth, it is crossed off at all voting booths.

I’ll second that digital roll.

Issy, I would prefer a Pork Roll, the Liberals can supply the pork, they have barrels of the stuff. With all this fraud going on why wasn't anyone prosecuted after the last election? Flint is a conservative fool at the best of times, wasn't this rubbish discussed a couple of weeks ago?

The day it's the government that allows us to vote, then its time to roll over and let the extreme run the country.

None the less a central digital roll is a good idea and it car do no harm except to those who would rort the system.

Fraudsters would obviously not want to be stopped from voting multiple times; getting people not entitled to vote on the roll at the last minute when the AEC is too snowed under to check every application, or voting for dead people. But I cannot believe that honest people would object to people having to prove their right to vote knowing that dishonesty and fraud is occurring. Dealing with voter fraud is vital when counts are close, which they look like being at the coming election

Dear Ttbn,

«The three major areas of fraud are: multiple voting, voting for someone else especially the dead, as well as fake enrolments»

But why on earth would anyone want to do so, getting into all this trouble while knowing well that it would anyway make no difference whatsoever?

The most common area of "fraud" is people asking family or friends to go and vote for them so they do not need to perform that unpleasant duty or be fined, much more so even during a pandemic where going to the polls is actually dangerous. In the vast majority of cases, the family member would mark the ballot paper faithfully according to the voter's wishes (if any).

Voting is just a show by which the regime attempts to obtain a semblance of legitimacy, pretending as if real people ever approved of its existence.