We also have what's known as 'preferential voting', & as @dblexus.bsky.social points out below, the Australian Electoral Commission for independent oversight

More about Australia's electoral system in this link:
youtu.be/tsUlHaXNG0s?...

Australians generally are more politically engaged than Americans, voting is compulsory, elections are held on Saturdays, & we aren't encumbered with an outdated, Republican-favouring electoral college system

You can't blame media for US's political woes

Australia has the 2nd highest level of media concentration IN THE WORLD - with RW Murdoch the major influence

Australia hasn't managed to 'restrict' Murdoch (see my post above)

Fmr PM Kevin Rudd began a petition to Parliament to investigate our ⬆️ media concentration (largely Murdoch) which gained ½ a million signatures, but so far gutless governments have failed to act & continue to kiss the Murdoch ring

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Australians generally are more politically engaged than Americans, voting is compulsory, elections are held on Saturdays, & we aren't encumbered with an outdated, Republican-favouring electoral college system

DELICIOUS!!! 😋
And it just keeps getting sweeter

Hey, my fave Thunderbird!🥰
CHEERS!!!
🍷🥂🍾
#auspol #ausvotes

Hi Leslee!😊

Just to clarify, I'm hopeful not confident

Having just recently (last week, in fact!) moved back to Melbourne after 10yrs in FNQ, I'm recovering from being surrounded by *those* voters

[shudder]

President Zelenskyy is one of the few true leaders that are heroes who gives so much of himself - laying down his life for his homeland. He is the opposite to the gangsters running Russia and the USA