donkey vote
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- donkey-vote
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donkey vote (plural donkey votes)
- (Australia) The act of casting a vote, in an election using a preferential voting system, by specifying the candidates in the order in which they are listed on the ballot paper (i.e., by numbering the choices sequentially from top to bottom, ignoring what they represent); a vote so cast. [From 1962.]
- 2000, Shaun Bowler, Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta Under the Single Transferable Vote, page 56:
- This needs to be tempered somewhat: Voting systems that require electors to express preferences they may not in fact possess are susceptible to random effects such as the so-called donkey-vote phenomenon observed for federal elections in Australia, in which some electors simply number sequentially from 1 onward down the ballot paper.
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