A VETERAN election analyst has predicted that One Nation will not win government in the next election because of the likelihood of election fraud.
NSW Central Coast man Lex Stewart, a former political adviser in the Federal and NSW parliaments, makes the prediction based on his years of attempting, without success, to get Australian electoral authorities and politicians interested in dealing with fraud in the electoral system.
“One Nation will not win government in the next election, because the ALP and Teals will win using vote fraud, as they have used so successfully for many years,” Mr Stewart said in a message to Cairns News.
“The 1987 federal election was the first time that the ALP swung so many seats by vote frauds that they swung the whole election result to re-elect PM Bob Hawke.
“This process was described in a book “The Stolen Election” by Dr Amy McGrath OAM with co-author Frank Hardy (the famous communist) who had access to inside info within the ALP.”
Coincidentally, or maybe not, it was largely the efforts of the Hawke-Keating Labor governments that drove Australia into the global free trade system and banking deregulation.
Mr Stewart says most of the methods of vote frauds that were used back then are still available today, plus a few new methods that he has discovered.
“Therefore, granted that the AEC and some senior people in the Liberal Party are either pro-ALP or corrupt or ignorant and asleep, then why would the ALP not again use the vote frauds that have been so successful in times past?” he says.
Mr Stewart says the best thing that ordinary people can do, apart from becoming educated in past vote frauds, is to do scrutineering at election time.
“I say don’t bother to vote before 6pm on election day, unless you also stay on after 6pm to do scrutineering, otherwise your vote can be robbed – yes, I have seen it happen many times.”
After the 2016 election, the Australian Electoral Commission identified 18,343 instances where a name had been crossed off twice – about 0.12% of the 14.89 million votes cast.
But when conducting its own investigating of a sample of these, the AEC claimed nearly 80% were “most likely errors by it own staff, such as crossing off the name above or below the correct one on the electoral roll”.
While the 18,343 instances of twice crossed off names is small in relation to the total number of voters, it only takes a few dozen or fewer votes to swing a marginal seat.
The Morrison government introduced four voting reform Bills in 2022 to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 in response to recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) and submissions by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).
However the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021, which included provisions for voter ID, was shelved due to Senator Jaqui Lambie and rebel Coalition MPs threatening to vote against it.
