Thread by @kevinbonham

I detest signs like this and they are the main reason why I cannot support fully fledged optional preferential voting. #NSWvotes

https://twitter.com/deniseshrivell/status/1636842391520018434

I would amend the NSW electoral act such that parties erecting such signs were fined one million dollars per sign and disqualified from the seat.

The purpose of these signs is to attempt to dupe voters for other candidates into thinking that just voting 1 is in any way a good idea, and deceitfully making the message look somewhat official if the viewer does not look too closely.

Yes Labor has been a culprit on this in the past too, also including running just-1 signs in some electorates and number-all-the-boxes signs in others at the same election.

https://twitter.com/caracal_fandom/status/1636942453696761856

Site header updated.

More examples here where authorisation section is conveniently obscured. (I probably don't agree with the commentary, the signs case was more nuanced than that)

https://twitter.com/simonahac/status/1636918202918916098

NSW Electoral Act 180 (h) forbids material that "contains a statement intended or likely to mislead an elector that the material is an official communication from the Electoral Commissioner or the Electoral Commission." I don't see how this is that.

It also doesn't seem to be a " voting direction intended or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with an elector in or in relation to the casting of his or her vote" (180 (a)) - I'd say the word "important" is misleading but not the statement about voting rules itself.

Also hard to see how it contains an untrue or incorrect statement (180(b)), since "important" is just an opinion, albeit one being expressed dishonestly.