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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ariel Bogle and Mostafa Rachwani

Anti-lockdown alliances find new focus in backing voice no campaign

A member of the public votes at a pre-poll in the voice referendum
Several online identities who grew audiences through anti-Covid lockdown and anti-vaccination activism have organised anti-voice forums and shared anti-voice content in multiple languages. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Sarah*, a volunteer for the yes campaign, has overheard some strange claims outside pre-poll stations in Werribee, Victoria: “[That] the AEC are in cahoots with the Albanese government; that this is all shady, that it’s a coverup for something else.”

She said she’s seen a handful of no campaigners handing out pens to people who are going in to cast their ballot “so their vote can’t be erased by the AEC”.

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