Federal Finance Minister Josh FRydenberg and rookie Liberal Party member Gladys Liu’s victory in this year’s federal election met a judicial challenge at the last minute. Oliver Yates, an independent candidate in the Kooyong constituency where Fleidenbo is located, has partnered with a mysterious voter in the Chisholm constituency in Liao, to initiate a lawsuit, demanding that the results of the two constituencies be invalidated. The controversy focused on the Liberal Party Chinese posters appearing outside the polling station on the polling day. The lawsuit filed with the High Court stated that the posters mimicked the Australian Official Election Commission (AEC) material, misleading and deceiving voters. “
Misleading Poster has a formal authorization
These posters have a unique AEC-style purple and white color scheme, written in Chinese, instructing voters to “correctly vote: fill in the green ballots next to the Liberal Liberal candidate 1”. The bottom small words indicate that they have been authorized by the Victorian Liberal Party. Yetz hinted on Friday that he would take legal action this week, but the Labor Party has indicated that it will not object to Chisholm’s casting results. But now, Yates’s legal team began to represent a Chisholm voter named Leslie Hall, which led to Liao Wei being involved in the lawsuit. Ms. Hall is said to be very dissatisfied with the Liberal Party’s actions on the polling day, fearing that these posters “show the erosion of democracy”. Thursday is the last day of the 40-day deadline for objecting to the results of the campaign. The Liberal Party insists that these posters do not mislead voters and conform to all electoral rules. The Liberal Party will try its best to defend its position. The Labor Party said in a statement on Thursday that it believes that these posters are “obviously misleading voters who speak Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese”, but given the cost and time involved in the legal process, it will not challenge the results. AEC has previously ruled that these posters are not illegal because they are authorized, and AEC “cannot monopolize purple.” But the plaintiffs thought the voting instructions on the poster were deceptive. Ms. Hall said that these posters are particularly effective in Chisholm because of the high proportion of Chinese voters. The 2016 census found that about 20% of Chisholm residents speak Mandarin or Cantonese at home.
Statement by the Federal Labor Party acting for the Australian Secretary Paul Eriksson
The Labour Party is disappointed with the Liberal Party’s strategy in the general election, which goes far beyond the acceptable range of controversial campaigns – especially in the Chisholm and Kooyong campaigns. The Chinese logo used by the Liberal Party in these campaigns uses the color of the Australian Election Commission (AEC), apparently to mimic AEC’s official voting guidelines, apparently to mislead voters who speak Mandarin and Cantonese to the Liberal Party. Although the Labor Party believes that there is strong evidence that these signs violate the Electoral Law, the enormous cost and lengthy time of filing a lawsuit means that we do not intend to pass the Court of Disputed Returns. Overturn the election results. Instead, our focus is on holding the Morrison Liberal government accountable and working hard to win a majority in the next election. Today, I spoke with Jennifer Yang, a Labour Party candidate for Chisholm, who also expressed disappointment with the strategy adopted by the Liberal Party. “In the past two months, many members of the local community have expressed to me their deep concern about the deception used by the Liberal Party,” Ms. Yang said. “The Liberal Party has taken this shameful and misleading behavior very much. People are disappointed.