Mate, what are you complaining about?

Changes to the electoral laws were necessary but did not go far enough. There is wide corruption of the electoral roll where people register many times under different names so they have more than one vote. Others do so for other reasons such as the possibility of lying to Centre_link_.

I was involved in investigating electoral fraud after the 1993 federal election. This seat changed hands marginally. After investigating less then 5% of the roll, the number of false enrolments was greater than the number of votes that changed the seat over.

I would personally like to see the whole electoral roll wiped 100% and repeated every 20 years. This enables dead people be removed, those who lived in telegraph poles, in the middle of an intersection and such be removed from the roll, making it an honest system.

Then there is the factor of the electoral office being flooded close to the day of the election. After the election, the electoral offices receive a lot of their mail outs to these addresses returned as non-existent. Something is very wrong here.

I argued this at a meeting of the Queensland Nationals 7 years ago. When some questioned how to get this through the senate, I said that you only have to appeal to the people. Explain the problem with the roll and that any person who group in the senate who tries to block such reform obviously has something to hide by wanting to keep a corrupted system in place.