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?
The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam
Submitted 5 weeks 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/
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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 5 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 5 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.