The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam (www.crikey.com.au)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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.

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