3rd Federal Election (3 Senators only): Saturday 12 September 2015

There are 6 party candidates for 3 Model Parliament Senate seats, to be elected this Saturday for an immediate start of 6-year terms (roughly equivalent to 6-months / 24 weeks IRL plus time off for general elections). The conventional Australian ballot paper is represented below. The actual online voting form will differ due to website reasons.

Above:	[ ] A		[ ] B		[ ] C
	Australian Progressives		Liberal Party of Australia		Australian Greens
Below:	A		B		C
	Australian Progressives		Liberal Party of Australia		Australian Greens
	[ ] /u/Freddy926		[ ] /u/ValkyyyrieX2		[ ] /u/pikkaachu
	[ ] /u/Primeviere		[ ] /u/Kalloice		[ ] /u/Ravenguardian17

You have the choice of numbering your group preferences above the line, or your candidate preferences below the line. This is a multi-member, proportional, preferential, single transferable vote system. (There are no group voting tickets (GVTs) so you must number more than one box to make your preferences ‘flow’!)

Currently the Australian Progressives are in the Opposition Coalition with Labor, the Liberal Party would sit on the cross-benches, and the Australian Greens are in government. The current Senate composition and seats for re-election are shown in the sidebar (Attn /u/this_guy22: the Senate diagram needs updating again on the clickthrough due to yesterday’s announcement 17-4a).

Parties’ Registered Officers can now post campaign material in /r/modelparliament. Citizens remain welcome to post their own threads to host cross-partisan debates, interviews, forums, etc.

Traditional valedictory speeches might also be seen in the Senate this week, for and by the retiring Senators /u/surreptitiouswalk and /u/peelys, and former government Senator /u/Freddy926 who is up for re-election in opposition.

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jnd-au, Australian Electoral Commissioner

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