Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Several times.

An honourable senator: Numerous.

Numerous times. It seems it has not been tested. I am not sure what the provisions are in the ACT because putting 1 above the line, even though there is an instruction to put 5 or 7 above the line depending on which electorate you are in, is counted as a valid vote. Is it the advice of the Electoral Commission that someone who advocates only vote 1 above the line would be misleading under section 329? Or would it be fairer to say that it is something that really has not been tested, although it seems that anyone who is running for office would not be so silly as to advocate that because it probably would be contrary to their own electoral interests?