Comment on The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sorry what actually is the scam?
ALP or LNP provide forms which look like a registration for a postal vote, then when they receive the completed form they store the voters details and then submit the actual application for a postal vote.
Is that it? Stealing voter details?
brisk@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.
While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.
According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they’ve already submitted for a postal vote when they haven’t.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I agree that it’s a shit practice, but it just doesn’t seem very dastardly or nefarious?
I can see that there’s the potential for someone to think they’ve registered when they have not, but that’s not the intention.