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Old 2nd July 2016, 05:57 PM   #345
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Originally Posted by arthwollipot View Post
And so much for the new Senate voting rules being set up to prevent minor parties from getting the power. Good work, whoever did that.
It would have been undemocratic to prevent minor parties who got enough votes from being elected. The aim was to prevent "micro" party candidates from being elected with less than 1% of the primary vote.
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