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The Court of Disputed Returns has ruled that WA will go back to the polls to re-elect the senate after the September election was declared void. It’s been an eventful journey to this point with a result declared only for a re-count to occur which resulting in the Australian Electoral Commission revealing they had misplaced around 14 hundred-ballot papers. Leading to the result being challenged in the High Court.

 

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Friday, February 21 2014
Produced By Paul Van Lieshout and Chris Wheeldon
Featured in storySenator Scott Ludlam, Australian Greens PartySenator Louise Pratt, Australian Labor PartyPhil Diak, National Spokesperson for the Australian Electoral CommissionDr Ian Cook, Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Mediated Politics and Political Philosophy for Fun and Profits, Murdoch University.
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