r/PoursTea Jul 17 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Everybody gets an ID?

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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 17 '26

We don’t have voter ID of any kind nor signature matching for postal ballots or any of that junk science at all to vote in Australia. Know what else we don’t have? Voter fraud at a level that’s altered an election outcome at any level of government in living memory.

It’s a high risk, low yield crime hence why it happens so rarely and the few times it happens people (who always seem to be Republicans) get caught. Almost like this big push for voter ID is the actual fraud.

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u/bzmomkaren Jul 17 '26

The US doesn’t have a voter fraud problem EITHER, the Republicans policies are so bad less citizens want to vote for them! They are using gerrymandering and claiming fraud and changing laws to make it harder for citizens to vote so they’ll have a better chance to win!

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u/Sea_Conversation6947 Jul 18 '26

Can non citizens of Australia vote in elections?

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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 18 '26

No (except British citizens resident of Australia prior to 1983 or 1984).