State Election 2010

[Pikey]

Polling booths, what time are they open and closing?

Can't find the information anywhere on the SAEC website

[jk1237]

8am to 6pm says on my 'easy voting card form'. Never seen that before

[Aidan]

Polling booths, what time are they open and closing?

Can't find the information anywhere on the SAEC website

From http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/election2010/index.htm:

Polling places are open from 8am until 6pm on Saturday 20 March.

[AtD]

Kylie explains why I would vote ALP tomorrow


If I were still registered in SA, that is.

(This should have been the ALP campaign song!)

[Pikey]

Thanks guys,

As my wife would say, it appears I had a "Man's Look"

Cheers

[rhino]

I think ilike the Tassie votting system with the 5 people per region system, I reckon that would work here and it would allow parties to be different because they would always have sitting members.

I think our local council and our electorate should be the same thing. Our elected member should, by default, be the local mayor or someone of equal status - maybe each electorate/council would have a mayor and a MHA. We'd get rid of a layer of government, and local members would be forced to have a much higher profile in their community, making the average punter keener to vote.

That would encourage smaller local councils, which would probably drive up costs.

Funny that - when our local council was small, the services were better and the costs were lower, but still people keep telling me bigger councils are better and cheaper.

Alternatively if state electorates replaced LGAs there would be a lot of extra bureaucracy every time the boundaries were redrawn.

(OMG I've done an Aidan!) I'm a glass-half-full kinda guy myself, I can see the positives in the idea and I don't think the negatives are insurmountable.

[Aidan]

Kylie explains why I would vote ALP tomorrow


If I were still registered in SA, that is.

(This should have been the ALP campaign song!)

The problem with that strategy is that they tend to get progressively more devilish after each time they're reelected, and eventually they'll be so bad that there's a huge swing to the other lot.

'Tis far better to aim for a hung parliament - c'mon, you know it's what those bastards deserve!

[Aidan]

Funny that - when our local council was small, the services were better and the costs were lower, but still people keep telling me bigger councils are better and cheaper.

Were the services really better? If so, how?

Bigger councils tend to be able to do things more cheaply than smaller ones. But when the state government gives all councils less subsidy, ratepayers are unlikely to notice the savings.

[peas_and_corn]

Election eve odds: $2.70 for a Lib premier, $1.45 for the ALP.

Wow that's tightened quite a bit.

It's interesting that the bookies think that Labor will win while the polls put the Libs at a close win. I can't help but think of 2004, when most of the polls said it'll be a tight one, and the bookies said it would be an easy win for the libs.

[Waewick]

I never go with better the devil you know, with that typw of arguement you would ever change houses, jobs, clothes, friends, partners ,cars,banks etc etc

that saying is for people who find it easier to dwell on the past instead of look toward the future.... or people who always say the world was better in the past

[Will]

Election eve odds: $2.70 for a Lib premier, $1.45 for the ALP.

Wow that's tightened quite a bit.

It's interesting that the bookies think that Labor will win while the polls put the Libs at a close win. I can't help but think of 2004, when most of the polls said it'll be a tight one, and the bookies said it would be an easy win for the libs.

Uusally the bookies are the best poll of them all. The polls that have been conducted for this state eelction have been quite small, whereby the margin for statistical error is highest. On the other hand, with the bookies, since people are dealing with their own money, they tend to reflect people's genuine voting intention.

[SRW]

The polls that have been conducted for this state eelction have been quite small, whereby the margin for statistical error is highest.

The final Newspoll was 1,600, which is quite a large sample. 52-48 to the Liberals.

Let's just hope the swing is not uniform.

[ChillyPhilly]

Usually the bookies are the best poll of them all. The polls that have been conducted for this state election have been quite small, whereby the margin for statistical error is highest. On the other hand, with the bookies, since people are dealing with their own money, they tend to reflect people's genuine voting intention.

Yet, you need to remember that over 90% of the population are motivated by profit and gain (it's genetic), and well, everyone can work out the rest pretty easily.

[Norman]

4 hours of election coverage tonight on the ABC... looks like it'll be a night in for most of us

[skyliner]

Can anyone give the total results party by party and two party preferred for those who don't live in Adelaide. In Bris. there will be very little said re these stats. A pity - like many of you, I would be watching the whole procedure if in SA. May the one that will benefit our state, not themselves, the most, win.

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