People Voting Via Phone In The Election Legit Asked Operators To Draw Penises On Their Ballots

The Australian Electoral Commission — or more specifically whoever runs the AEC’s Twitter account — has revealed some people tried to get penises drawn on their election ballot via phone votes. A dick move, if you will. A load of people were able to vote in the Federal Election via phone call. In fact, the AEC had to make a last minute expansion to phone-voting eligibility because of the super high rates of COVID-19. But it turns out that people genuinely tried to do what’s known as an “informal vote” over the phone. Babe, if you’re putting in the effort to phone up and vote, why not just do it properly? Informal votes

Kevin Bonham

A lot of people asking me about informal votes in COVID phone voting. The phone voting is live operator (anonymised) so voters can deliberately vote informal.

— Kevin Bonham (@kevinbonham) May 31, 2022

People legitimately asked to do this…

— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022

Surely this would trivialise the (sometimes very elaborate) work voters put into drawing pictures on their ballot papers.

— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022

As formality and drawing a little picture are usually unrelated, this is entirely possible. Our advice for voters at the time was that the drawing might be a fun craft activity to undertake while in isolation.

— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) May 31, 2022

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