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AEC receives complaints after unauthorised pamphlets distributed in Wentworth
The Australian electoral commission says it’s received complaints on the distribution of unauthorised pamphlets, opposing Allegra Spender, the member for Wentworth.
More than 47,000 pamphlets with no authorisation have been distributed across Wentworth, according to the AEC, meaning voters have no way of identifying the source of the information.
The commission says it’s worked quickly to identify and make contact with the entity responsible for the pamphlets, and an investigation is ongoing.
It says the pamphlets breach the Commonwealth Electoral Act, which can attract civil penalties that would be determined by a court.
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Allegra Spender said there was a “variety of false and misleading and offensive claims in this pamphlet” but didn’t want to “spread them further.”
But, she claimed it was “unlawful.”
Tomorrow is when pre-poll opens. Tomorrow is when Australians start to vote, and to distribute this sort of material – which is unlawful under the Act for very good reason – the day before that we start, we start pre-polling, just shows what sort of approach whoever is distributing them is trying to take.