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Considering almost half Tasmanian adults are functionally illiterate that seems like One Nation is doing pretty poorly in their core demographic. Maybe if more mining kicks off in Tassie Gina will give enough fucks about the balance of power and buy some electorates for her sock puppet party.

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[–] shads@lemy.lol 1 points 5 hours ago

Ehh it's one thing to say you will vote with the rabid racists that are being legitimised by the mainstream mid cycle between elections. It's another to vote that way at the ballot box.

Plus a significant proportion can intend to vote for the red headed freak all they want. It's a bit more difficult when they have to remember the verbal instructions from the electoral worker, make it to a booth and remember how to write to manifest that desire.

Honestly, it's the Sky News, Channel Nine, Facebook crowd that will buoy PHON up. The same people who will decry that the left have gone to far because trans people exist, who waffle on about death taxes as though they will have a big enough estate to be affected one way or another, and who talk about having to be economically responsible and living within our needs as a country while ignoring the Billions in corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. Fucking Idiots in other words, and yet their vote carries as much weight as mine or yours, its kinda disgusting really.

A 3 question civics test before you can vote would destroy whole blocs of voters in Australia. Just get them to identify how a progressive income tax works, which country is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the OECD, and which parts of the Miranda Rights apply to them, boom PHON gets a dozen votes across the whole country.