I'm going to preface by saying that I don't want my votes to go to the Dark Lord or the Liberal Party or the liars in the Labour Party. They are both completely corrupt and I'm adamant that they need to feel some pain.

So then I want to look at the independents and consider what they do and what they don't do, and will they be truly representative, or are they just there scrambling for votes to get some money and power? Who can say?

So what I'd like to do to make sure the Liberals and Labour don't get my vote, is find some kind of flowchart, that shows if I vote for an independent or a smaller party, where does that preference go to, so that I don't feed the party that I don't want to get my vote in the end.

Is there any resource out there that can show me where the preferences get fed to, so I can make an informed choice.

I feel like this should be a legal obligation, that we are all given this kind of information in a flowchart. But I can't find it. Can anybody help?

Thank you so much.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

with the House of Reps using Instant-Runoff Voting with optional preferences

Not optional preferences.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whoops, I was going from memory based on last election. You're right.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Federally, the Reps has always had compulsory preferential. Things are different at some state and council elections though. For example, in Queensland state elections it's compulsory, but Council elections have optional preferential. It was an election promise by the LNP to change it to optional preferential in both state and council elections. Because optional preferential helps the LNP a huge amount, by causing some Greens and Labor voters to have their votes exhausted rather than going to the other.