How Labor
won in Ramsay
Firstly they
relied on media control of information, as all would know; there was no media
coverage of Ramsay, even on most day time talk back shows and in the Advertiser,
messenger press and TV, coverage did not exist or showed clear Labor bias.
The few
articles covered only the Labor candidate and had the usual spin on them and in
every case online comment were disabled. Emails, letters to the editor, on line
comment, press releases and calls to talk back by dozens of supporters on a daily
basis resulted in total silence.
Then they
had to keep their candidate out of the spot light, while keeping the others
busy, in the most I had to replace my corflute posters that were being stolen
every second night, having to have 3 extra batches made up.
The Dodgy
how to vote cards of the LDP, highlighting the word LIBERAL were designed to
grab a few liberal supporters votes in the absence of a true Liberal candidate,
even though the LDP did not compete further than their name on the ballot paper
and the dodgy how to vote card in the polling booth cubicles.
The LDP preferences
went to Labor over the Independent.
In the mean
time they flooded the electorate with letterbox flyers, personally addressed
mail, phone calls, dodgy notes saying “I just missed you” designed to appear
personally written, all akin to typical real-estate marketing.
Offers for
free distribution of my flyers, seemed a nice favour, resulting in most of my
mail out information going missing, all part of the dirty game.
The night
before the election in came the bus loads of interstate Labor workers, they hit
the polling booths hard, and had people sleeping over night with dogs to
protect their massive coverage of the polling booths, and on the day of the
election they had dozens of people in every polling booth.
Parts of
these actions were to intimidate minor party workers and control polling booth
coverage, with many of my supporters coping verbal abuse.
Massive
reports of voters being turned away from polling booths, names missing of the
electoral rolls and a host of other issues, have now become the norm during SA
elections.
The
continued use of a pencil to mark your ballot paper, and inappropriate conduct
at the polling booths has also become the norm. Informal votes will account for
over 10% of votes and continued disgust at our full preferential system makes
it clear the changes to our electoral system I have been fighting for, for over
a decade are necessary.
Even with
all the structural biases of the electoral system and the dodgy conduct, Labor
still had a swing against them, so ask yourselves what would have been the
outcome of an honest process?
LABORS
SECRET IS TO SILENCE ANY OPPOSITION, AND USE TRICKERY AND DECEPTION TO WIN
The Media Backed their every move
which was obvious to everyone who tried to follow the campaign, so it is time
for we the people, to work together to expose the truth, demand change and
defend democracy.
Mark Aldridge
Independent Candidate