Comment on Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 10 months agoThe fact is in the 2022 US election, voter turn out was as low as 40% in some states and never anywhere even remotely in the same vicinity as Australian elections (over 90%).
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 10 months ago
This changes the effect of negative campaigning (people still show up in Aus vs the US), but the idea is to dissuade people from voting for someone, rather than encourage them to vote for you. This might have a positive effect on votes for the party doing the negative campaigning, but I think it’s a poor definition of convincing someone to vote for you.