Pauline Hanson One Nation cartoon

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One Nation candidate 'massively annoyed' after being accused of ... (The Guardian)

Australian Electoral Commission refers Malcolm Heffernan to federal police for nominating in NSW and WA electorates.

The AEC said it had referred Culleton’s case alleging he declared he was not an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent. It marks the second time during this election that the AEC has referred a candidate to the federal police. That was my fault but I didn’t even know about it until I got the letter.” But after they discovered he had previously been a candidate for the now defunct far-right party founded by former One Nation senator Fraser Anning, he was dropped. “I made that mistake on my date of birth because they [One Nation] were giving me the hurry up to do the paper work. The nominations were for two separate parties.

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AEC warns Pauline Hanson's One Nation over false voter fraud ... (ABC News)

An animated cartoon posted by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is removed from multiple social media platforms after it was flagged for spreading false ...

At the time of writing, the video has been pulled from Ms Hanson's Facebook and TikTok accounts. The AEC has added the issue to its disinformation register, stating: "There is no evidence of postal vote applications being received under the names of deceased Australians". But recent estimates from the AEC suggest the rate of multiple voting during the most recent federal election in 2019 were a slim 0.03 per cent, adding that the issue of multiple voting was "by and large, a very small problem". "We also validate postal vote applications against the roll prior to distribution and again upon receipt of a completed postal vote." "There is no evidence that the level of apparent multiple voting in Australia has ever been sufficient to overturn the margin in any one contest," an AEC spokesperson Evan Ekin-Smyth said. - The video also contains a racist trope about the origin of COVID-19

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One Nation faces AEC probe over Albanese cartoon (The New Daily)

One Nation faces an Australian Electoral Commission investigation after suggesting Labor might use fraud to win next month's election.

“Given these declarations are false, the AEC has now referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police for investigation as to whether a crime has been committed,” it said in a statement. The AEC said the nominations for two electoral divisions were in contravention of the Electoral Act. He was nominated for One Nation in the NSW seat of Banks, and for the Australian Federation Party for the West Australian seat of Brand.

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AEC asks social media platforms to remove misleading Pauline ... (Women's Agenda)

The Australian Electoral Commission has called out a cartoon from One Nation that falsely suggests Labor would utilise electoral fraud to win the federal ...

But isn’t that illegal?” the Albanese character replies. The clip has been removed from Facebook and Tiktok, but is still available on Twitter (where it has been labelled misleading) and on YouTube. The AEC has contacted social media platforms asking for it to be taken down due to its disinformation. Wong then tells Albanese the AEC doesn’t check voter identification “because that would be racist”.

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