Submitted 1 day ago by brisk@aussie.zone to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/03/coalition-labor-faux-post-vote-forms-scam-2025-election/
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?
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.
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.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Didn’t look closely at it, but i’m pretty sure we received a Nationals and then a Liberal one of these today. Might pull them out of the bin and have a closer look.
No Labor one though, just a flyer. Or should i say yet?