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I've timed this to go out at midday AEDT and I'll try keep it active until the referendum is called sometime tonight.
Carp aevann pls pin, but if they don't I'm gonna use my limited coins to pin it myself when something happens.
- Sneed- Marcia Langton says reconciliation is dead
- News- last minute Newspoll shows Yes gain by 3 points (still losing tho)
- Sneed- Dutton is literally drumpfh
- Sneed- "Once again, it seems only white men know what's best for Aboriginal peoples"
Anyway, how was voting (if you're doing it on the day)? What result are you expecting? What result do you want?
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Aww is the literal union mobster crony sad that he couldn't brow beat to get the outcome he wanted this time?
Tragic.
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Whelp, better do what unions do best and strike
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I had a nice chat with an old lady handing out 'Yes' pamphlets. She said I was nice to talk to after all the _mean_ things 'No' voters said to her. I didn't tell her I was going to vote 'No'.
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that was very nice of you to not crush her spirit after being polite
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You should have very politely told her that you respect her position and her fighting for it but you've still got to go no.
I'm really good at this when I'm at exactly the right blood alcohol level to be bold but not enough that I have to be too honest.
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Tales from the voting booth:
Hello dramasisters, behold the tales from my middle to upper-middle class suburb in Victoria. Nothing too crazy but had a few fun ones.
A known r-slur in our neighbourhood got his ballot and walked straight out with it.
Multiple people asking what a constitution is.
A couple people started filling in the ballot in front of me thinking that i was gonna tell them what to write.
One dude came in and found out his brother had come in and voted for him earlier in the day.
Someone else wrote c*nt all over the booth and the booth had to be taken down.
Lots of old/middle-aged wogs subtly chudding out to me ("Common sense to vote no", "nah frick em", "when my papou+yia yia, came over..." etc.)
Had to tell voters that if they made a mistake they could come back to get a new ballot. One voter replied "how do you frick up one word?" Had a bit of a laugh with him.
The No campaign scrutineer initially looked worried as the Yes stack was quite big, in the end our area went for No 51% to 48%. Yes lady looked dejected especially with the flood of results from their campaign chat.
Didn't find the marsey vote
Snags cost $3.5, absolutely mental. At least the lines went quickly for the voting.
That mostly covers it. I'll try and think of any others but mostly comfy day chilling and getting some coin.
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You have been permanently banned from Reddit for suggesting that vote fraud is possible
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Yeah it's not widespread at all (1 guy out of 1500 people), but still concerning that there's not really a check against it. If we didn't have mandatory voting it would be very easy to brute force a result. At least with the current system, it's harder to not raise a red flag (if you were systematically double voting)
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mandatory voting seems like it has enough benefits that it removes the real incentive to deal with shit like voter fraud.
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Dont you have to present your ID when voting?
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there's some schizo who messages one of my friends often. Apparently he voted Yes and then voted Yes again on his mum's ballot.
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The vote of a man who can frick up a single word counts the same as your vote.
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Appreciate the write up
This kind of local insight is what makes /h/mnn the number one name in news
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Our next referendum should be that all democracy sausages are provided free of charge.
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Not one single person is gonna read all that
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I did
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The best I can do on mobile.
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REMEMBER DRAMANAUTS:
It IS your patriotic duty to send Reddit Cares to all the seething /r/Australia gigacute twinks tomorrow should the NO vote win.
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Inb4 [losing side] calls the referendum rigged
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The YESsisters can't because even the most biased polls have been leaning towards them losing. NOchuds would have an absolute meltdown though, especially the bettors.
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there have been a lot of yessisters saying that "akshually polling is inaccurate and it's only boomers answering and basically yes will get 100% of votes and states". that said, they're probably not gonna say the referendum is rigged, they're probably gonna go for the angle that 60-70% of the population is racist
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Are they really trying to say that polls lean rightoid?
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Bettors?
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Lol even ABC has given up reporting on this and has gone back to sandshit
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Our impartial Government national broadcaster everyone - chucking a sook because they didn't get their outcome and just deciding to not report.
THAT should be sanctionable and I'll be writing a letter to the communications minister asking why that's okay?
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Settle down chud
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I wanna twist the knife.
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signage everywhere around the place to vote yes, lots of boomers wearing aboriginal print shirts. nobody there mentioning 'no'
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At one of my local polling centres, I was handed a "Vote No" flyer by a young Asian woman
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Wife her
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I also had a No flyer handed to me by an Asian woman last week. Not young though.
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Can you set me up with her?
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Here in the
most of the women I meet love former president Duterte because he 
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they are super easily turned into 
if you show them the 
crime rates or bring up college admission discrimination against Asians.
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Dutertardism ravaged the rural Philippines like HRT did to nerd communities.
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Update- I've voted! I looked deep in my heart for the most dramatic outcome, let out a sigh, and voted Yes.
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Did your polling place have the most tanned looking white people they could find handing out yes pamphlets as well?
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I got there at 8am before yes voters have even woken up
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Lol it was just regular white people in my electorate.
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I don't see skin colour, but there was a "yes" campaigner and a "no" campaigner on opposite sides of the line and the fake polite bickering between them was amazing
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Nope, I'm overseas so there weren't any campaigners of any sort
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Most dramatic outcome would be a no because we'll never hear the end of how racist Australia is (duh).
If yes wins I'm pretty sure the government can just ignore every suggestion the advisory council puts forward citing budgets.
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The most dramatic outcome is No wins but only just, so as to cause seethe on all sides.
No's well ahead, so it's the duty for all dramamaxxers to vote Yes.
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An historic ubercucking landslide no win would also be pretty dramatic.
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I was fairly certain this would happen, and ended up being wrong (I wanted ~70% No).
It's still good that No got declared within 85 mins of starting counting, and 2 hours before WA's voting booths closed though.
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NO bros rising
Hoping for some AEC chicanery, yes vote 'dumps' throughout the night would be peak drama
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Is that graph based on an actual vote?
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Yeah, it's from the 2020 chudpocalypse, don't worry though it was debunked.
https://katychristianmagazine.com/2020/11/06/democracy-dies-in-broad-daylight
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wi-pa-mi-vote-spikes-idUSKBN27Q307
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That's the cope cute twink chart
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On the 2020 election?
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2020 presidential in Wisconsin
Funniest part of the election and that line alone probably convinced tens of thousands.
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Convinced them that it was stolen or convinced them to vote?
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Yes
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i hope this was an ironic commentok it's a chud being sarcasticJump in the discussion.
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How in science's name could this have happen? All my heckin celebrities said to vote yeserino
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
pls give the link I need to look through this neighbour's account
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A YesSister asked r/relationship_advice if she should dump her boyfriend for being a NoBro. You'll never guess how they responded.
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I will post some funny things I've seen while working at the polls after my shift ends
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hope you saw me and my marsey
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I'll keep your vote and hang it on my wall
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After you've been edging me for months I'm really excited for this. Looking forward to the seethe tomorrow (even if the polls are wrong and it's dramatards seething)
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It's the good thing about all this imo, literally every result is dramatic. No landslide? Yessisters decide they hate Australia. It's close? Seethe from all corners. Yes victory? Total dramatard death.
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No matter who wins we can all laugh at Australia.
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This is ridiculously pathetic even for reddit mods lmfao
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I Hope Yes wins and it turns out horribly and every single mayo is decapitated on television. That would be so nice.
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I hope Yes wins, the abos get a ton of power but are too lazy to make uae of it. Max drama
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God I wish
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can someone explain what this whole drama is about, been hard to get a straight answer even on here
something about abbos and money?
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Abos need a voice in the Australian Government according to white people. You may think, "Wait, abos can't vote?" And the answer is yes, of course they can. So what does giving them a voice actually mean? No one knows, but it's a good thing and you're a racist if you keep asking questions.
That's the summary of all of the Internet discussions
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So if they can vote, and presumably they're also allowed to run for office do they not already have a voice?
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Wow. Racist.
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They have a voice but they don't have a Voice. Part of the yes campaign is literally this play on words, where they say aboriginals have never had a Voice and it's technically true because they've never had race-exclusive representative body called a "Voice" but it's supposed to create the false impression that they have less of a figurative voice in politics than any other individual.
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Yes but right now it's just a general "australian" voice
They need a special "abo" voice
Real apartheid has never been tried
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Adding to others' answers, the Voice is part of a package of reforms that indigenous rights groups have been pushing for: Voice (race-exclusive shadow parliament) Treaty (land and money gibs that can't be undone by future governments) and Truth (self-flagellation about bad stuff a bunch of long dead Bri'ish people did). It's very obvious that if the Voice is established, it creates momentum for the other two things.
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A treaty would be nice, if only to shut up the 'never ceded' bullshit.
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So bascially,
Theres a referendum about enshrining an aboriginal advisory body into the constitution today. Many aboriginal advisory bodies have been tried before but have all been ineffective (and thats not to mention other moneypit projects aiming to help aboriginals that didn't do much). The proposed constitutional amendment is limited in scope, pretty much only saying that there needs to be a voice, that the voice can advise parliament and that parliament has power to change it's composition, procedures and powers. No draft legislation has been released and the prime minister has not explicitly supported any proposed models such as the one proposed in the calma-langton report. Both yes and no have had pretty abysmal campaigns, although yes in particular has been particularly garbage as the official government messaging has been "vote yes because it'll make you feel good". i wish i was joking.
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Arent there bigger things to worry about than this homosexual voice thing. Like abos being r-slurs or the economy etc.
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To add, it's the first constitutional referendum in 24 years, so there's a bit of media buzz about it.
The people don't GAF though, and the enthusiasm gap is highly entertaining.
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Here's a post of mine from a couple months ago, it's a bit out of date but it's the best I can do at a pinch
https://rdrama.net/post/197227/platyaboriginalvoiceposting-effortpostplatyaboriginal-full-explanation-of-the
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nice write up thank you!
so the biggest controversy, if you actually read into it seems to be whether or not this council will come with some giant gib scam by leftoids
yall really aren't that different than us in some ways
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Yep pretty much lol
The problem is that the leftoids absolutely want to do the gibs and absolutely want to use the Voice to lobby for gibs, but they know the gibs are incredibly unpopular so they're essentially stuck with arguing "this referendum isn't about the gibs" ad nauseam
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hide behind MUH RACISM is a classic tactic. lets see how it plays out for them
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Public shaming so rarely affects private behaviour, and no one can verify what you do in the voting booth.
Real life is not Twitter/reddit/ social media, it's amazing how many people and organisations don't get that.
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Yeah and it's probably the main reason why people are voting No. While they cannot just shotgun through legislation on their own it's pretty likely that reparations and other rackets (like having to have a permit for an abbo to inspect your land so you don't disturb holy rocks before you can make improvements on it, at your cost of course) will be proposed at some point.
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Something to do with the peoples choices and voices act or someshit like that
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you mean that one side is good and correct and the other side is evil and wrong? yep i totally see what you're talking about, thanks for clearing that up
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