You wouldn’t normally expect an Australian government agency to slap down a user on Twitter for spreading a “baseless myth” or to explain to another person that “there’s this whole universal franchise concept in Australia that we’ve had for quite some time now” in response to a question about voters’ intelligence.
But the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is in the business of democracy. Its main job is to run federal elections but it also plays an educational role – and that’s where the commission’s increasingly popular Twitter account comes in.
