The voters in Tasmania have pushed a Labor Senator up the ranks and she will be reelected ahead of other candidates of the party.
Under the old system, most voters cast ticket votes, making the order of election in any given party more closed list than open or STV. Now, voters can rank “below the line” without having to rank all candidates. (Alternatively, they can rank parties “above the line”.)
The article notes that Tasmanian voters have tended to vote below the line more than voters in other states, anyway (probably because they use STV for their state assembly).
There are also some strange ballot rankings above the line. ABC says, quoting Polling analyst Kevin Bonham:
I’ve seen cases like people voting One for the Shooter, Fishers and Farmers, and Two for the Animal Justice Party, two parties that are more or less totally opposed to each other in the…
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