If you are that stupid to write your name on the ballot you deserve your vote to be thrown out. You can't be that fucking stupid.

Just thought I'd also point out how ridiculous it was that bigots made a big deal about the X or tick thing (it's like pensioners and plastic bags, all over again). The instructions are literally SO clear.

Do they think people are voting who can't understand those directions?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On the eve of the Voice to Parliament referendum, misleading and inaccurate information about the electoral voting process remains rife on social media,  from misguided suggestions about voter identification and claims about the validity of ballot paper "ticks" and "crosses".

As fellow X users quickly pointed out, guidelines published by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) suggest the man's vote would likely be counted as informal by polling officials.

In another post to X last week and viewed more than 100,000 times, a user who had apparently enrolled as a postal voter claimed that the AEC had included Yes campaign material along with her ballot paper.

Debate around the AEC's stance on whether ticks and crosses would be counted as Yes and No votes respectively in the referendum was reignited this week as the Federal Court considered a legal challenge from the United Australia Party's Clive Palmer and Senator Ralph Babet.

Perhaps the most viral piece of problematic information to spread online in recent weeks regrettably came from the AEC itself, in the form of a post to X — viewed more than one million times on the platform — that lacked crucial context.

Other social media users — some with hundreds of thousands of followers — shared the AEC's original post alongside claims it proved the system was "easy to rig" and that "democracy is under attack".

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Can someone explain to me, a non-Australian, why the hell your ballot asks people to write yes or no?? Why not have two boxes, one that says “yes” and one that says “no” and have people make a mark in the box they want? Then all this nonsense about ticks and crosses wouldn’t matter. If someone marked both boxes their ballot would be invalidated. Easy peasy

Hey, just a little nudge, if you’re keen to chat about the Voice to Parliament, we’ve got this corker of a megathread where we can all have a good chinwag in one spot. But if you’re not up for that, no worries, it’s business as usual. Gotta keep things fair dinkum!