36
Discovery of unopened ballots prompts recount in SA seat One Nation won by just 58 votes
(www.theguardian.com)
"Please explain!"
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
36 points (97.4% liked)
Australia
4957 readers
139 users here now
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The cookers are gonna lose their minds if this changes the outcome...
They're cookers - what minds?
Everyone should lose their mind if this changes the outcome, because it looks like clear corruption/rigging.
It should be impossible for there to be missing votes that just show up weeks later. If they do they should not be counted, and you definitely shouldn’t be overturning a result.
It could actually be an accident, if you want you can give it a crack at managing millions of little slips of paper over massive distances, and make sure you don't lose one.
My guess a box from whoop whoop was missed, and when they found it they did the right thing by announcing they'd found it and forcing a full recount.
Corruption would be this box getting thrown on the fire
Liberal or One Nation - do you want selfish, or crazy?
Almost tempted to say One Nation, because the more seats they have, the quicker their infighting begins. (I'll save you the counting - all 11 left)
But it will also be entertaining if nothing else to see them lose it and cry again.
😆 Neither.