How to Vote For Me

by John Pyke, Queensland candidate for the Constitutional Convention

The Easy Way - Above the Line

First, you have to be on the roll in Queensland.

If so, when you get your ballot paper,

Go to the third column across,
then go to the third name down, and
put a "1" in the box opposite:

Pyke
John Richard
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That way, you've given me your first preference and you're automatically assumed to have given another 92 preferences in accordance with my preference ticket - which runs through all known republicans in my preferred order (which is not necessarily quite yours, I know), so that if there's a contest for the last seat between any republican and any monarchist your vote will help the republican.

The Individualist, But Maybe Ineffective, Way - Below the Line

Write the number "140" in the "first preference box". You can then find the numbers of up to another 12 candidates that you like the sound of from the information booklet, and write them in the other preference boxes. But thanks to our democratic government and the Act that it pushed through Parliament, you can't allocate any more than 13 preferences, so if you vote this way, your vote may be

exhausted without electing any candidate, or
exhausted before the contest for the final places has been settled.

See Will Your Vote be Wasted? - Preference Tickets and Below the Line Voting for more details.

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Written by John Pyke, 7 November 1997