Unlike #federal #elections, #Victorian elections have #GroupVotingTickets in the upper house – a system that enables the business of #PreferenceWhispering’ – back-room deals where preferences are swapped to elect MPs with a tiny share of the votes. This was being used to game the system. Right wing agitator, #AviYemeni, has been working to #register #fake micro-parties called the ‘Free Palestine Party’ and ‘Muslim Votes Matter’ with the explicit purpose of ChannelingVotes to #OneNation. Another #FakeParty project, #SaveTheEnvironmentParty was announced in February for the same reason: to #trick #voters. This election, that's changing. Instead of backroom deals and dark money deciding where preferences go, voters will rank the parties they want to elect to Victoria's upper house, just as they already do in the lower house. #VicPol #auspol #TheGreens