I voted Greens & some independents, & will again. Because in my view, both major parties have no real clue and have lost the plot. Seems most people agree.

Sadly, people voted for Pauline Hansen who is a moron rather than either major party candidate in her electorate, and nobody likes her! She knows as much about politics as Honey Boo Boo, and probably less! She’s just a big mouthed bigot with a huge chip on her shoulder!

Transylvania is looking better every day! *shrug*

They shouldn’t have borrowed election ideas from the Republicans. the Republican governor and legislature in Florida produced the same results with the games they played with the election laws. Given that people are required to vote in Australia, a law suit is definitely in order.

The AEC is definitely pointing at a hung Parliament and Turnbull is sounding like he’s going to resign as party leader.

So, in a bid to outdo the USA in dirty elections, the Lib’s tried this:

Senator Glenn Lazarus is seeking legal advice about the validity of Saturday’s election after he received reports ballot papers were in short supply at polling booths.

Senator Lazarus, who has conceded defeat in Queensland’s senate race, posted a message on his Facebook page calling into question the process of the federal election and blames the ballot paper shortage on the Coalition for slashing funding to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).

“I am absolutely shocked that polling booths would run out of ballot papers leaving voters unable to vote,” he said in a statement on Facebook.

“According to many people they were told by AEC staff to check their name off the electoral roll so they could be excused from voting to avoid a fine because the polling booth had run out of ballot papers. Given the extent of the complaints, I have referred this matter to a constitutional lawyer for advice.”

“I have also been advised by many people that the Turnbull Government slashed funding to the AEC and reduced the number of polling booths across the country and the number of AEC workers at polling booths,” Senator Lazarus said.

“This would explain why voters experienced unprecedented delays at polling booths and booths also ran out of ballot papers.” He reiterated that he was not trying to overturn his expected dumping by the electorate but to ensure elections are conducted in a more professional manner in the future.

So far, Senator Lazarus’ office has received several hundred written complaints in relation to a shortage of ballot papers. A spokeswoman from his office said the complaints were from “all over Australia” and included the seat of Cowper in which independent MP Rob Oakeshott failed in his bid to be re-elected after leaving parliament in 2013.

So, the Lib’s can’t even rig an election and win! LOL

So the count has been suspended in Gilmore because the AEC can’t find a letter opening machine. I’m not even kidding.
— Joe McKenzie (@aJoeMcKenzie) July 5, 2016

We can settle on the Coalition vs Labor, and the AEC is saying 67 / 71 favor Labor with 6 seats undecided. Labor would need 5 out 6 to win and the Coalition can’t win if those numbers hold. Hung parliament is the safe bet.

An election update from The Guardian:
Shorten fought on policies while Turnbull sat back waiting for the people to elect him

I think that’s reasonably accurate. And yes, whatever happens Turnbull is probably finished. A good thing… Or it would be, except that his replacements are as bad and even worse! *shrug*

I think it will be a hung government. I can’t see either getting a majority now, though it may be possible. It will depend on the postal votes. And several of the independents have stated they will not deal with either party.

BTW, one thing to know is the The Liberal party on it’s own has NEVER won more votes than The Labor Party. They only win power because of the National Party which always get’s a lot of seats in Queensland and some in NSW. That’s why they created the L/NP Coalition.

Currently Labor: 64, Lib’s: 39, NP & NP: 25

The media feels they are the only people who can judge what they do, so you get Judith Miller using the New York Times to tell fairy tales…