Reform’s plan to “prioritise” the siting of migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas would be illegal, experts have told Big Issue.
Reform’s plan to “prioritise” the siting of migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas would be illegal, experts have told Big Issue.
Not only would it be illegal the threat itself could be considered voter manipulation. Threatening people to vote a certain way by saying your political opponents will be punished is clearly manipulation.
People have said this but not produced any law that forbids it. Necessarily, campaigning involves offering incentives to vote for you and disincentives to vote against.
I don’t think pork barrel politics was ever illegal in this country, reprehensible though it is.