An FYI to future voters, you have to fill in the minimum number of votes specified on the ballot sheet or your vote will get thrown out as 'informal'.
It was very disappointing to see many ballot sheets with a
1 for Legalise Cannabis and all the other squares blank or less than 6 votes = in the bin, you just wasted your vote!
If they had just put in 5 other numbers anywhere above the line, that would've pushed Legalise Cannabis ahead of One Nation in my polling station at least.
The sheet clearly stated to number at least 6.
The House of Reps had @10% informal and some of that comes down to miscommunication, I saw many with only 1-6 filled in (instead of 1-8), one sheet with the word 'Donkey' written on it, quite a few blank sheets, a few that looked like they gave their sheet to their kid to scribble on, some with illegible numbers, etc. Didn't see any dicks drawn on sheets though.
It's perfectly fine to cross out your number and write in another number that's clearly legible, just make sure your crossed out number looks like it's definitely crossed out and not looking like some weird digit. I had to place one sheet with a 9 in a box on the House of Reps sheet into the informal pile; the voter clearly left out the number 2 but I was told they will all be double checked later so not sure what happens to that one.
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