ALP or LNP provide forms which look like a registration for a postal vote, then when they receive the completed form they store the voters details and then submit the actual application for a postal vote.

Is that it? Stealing voter details?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.

While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.

According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they've already submitted for a postal vote when they haven't.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I agree that it's a shit practice, but it just doesn't seem very dastardly or nefarious?

I can see that there's the potential for someone to think they've registered when they have not, but that's not the intention.