VEC Niddrie count concluded. Greens came a distant third

The VEC has concluded its by election count but failed to publish an accurate 2CP result due to mistake in determining who would be the main font runners. The VEC had thought the last two candidates remaining would have been the ALP and the Greens. As was previously reported on election night independent Andria Surace out polled the Greens primary vote. Analysis of the registered HTV cards should have indicated that the Greens were not a serious contender for the seat. The VEC would have also known this fact earlier in the count when primary votes were recorded and using SMS technology or even a mobile phone could have directed staff to notionally distribute a 2CP throw based on real live data.

Link: VEC Results

Niddrie:: VEC Polls results still out of wack

The VEC still has not accounted properly for the Niddrie by-election results.


Votes recorded at the end of the recheck (Extracted Tuesday 22:00 - No time date stamp published)
Formal votes 27338 Informal 3560 Total 30898

2CP votes (Time date stamp of Tuesday, 27 March 2012 10:10:24 AM) still showing a split between the ALP (19485) and the Greens (8058) even though the the Greens do not pickup preferences from other minor candidates HTV cards (They came third not second)  Total formal 27534 Some 205 votes more then the polling place results. 

Recheck votes

Total Enrolment as at close of rolls:	36808
Formal Votes:	27338
Informal Votes:	3560 (11.52% of the total votes)
Total Votes:	30898 (83.94% of the total enrolment as at the close of rolls rechecked)

Recheck First preference votes

	SCHOREL-HLAVKA, Gerrit Hendrik	CARROLL, Ben	SURACE, Andrea	LINAKER, David Hugh	LESTER, Josie	DEVERALA, Michael	MYERS, Amy	LITTLE, Jim	PAPAFOTIOU, Frank
Voting centres		ALP			GREENS	DLP	SEX PARTY		CDP	Informal votes	Total votes polled
Airport West	63	903	131	19	165	84	163	68	104	225	1925
Avondale Heights	53	824	203	23	188	63	120	222	105	217	2018
Avondale Heights Central	98	1227	421	23	257	129	245	273	208	468	3349
Avondale Heights North	16	263	77	2	42	21	28	44	36	79	608
Buckley Park	66	756	240	21	235	82	188	121	117	232	2058
Kealba	41	524	68	19	130	56	99	52	78	196	1263
Keilor	27	282	117	10	114	41	110	98	76	124	999
Keilor East	63	803	280	11	147	112	120	65	149	245	1995
Keilor Heights	57	911	285	11	176	53	163	235	84	244	2219
Keilor Park	45	608	116	18	115	67	111	60	71	197	1408
Keilor South	55	803	404	14	179	88	183	126	99	292	2243
Niddrie	33	554	60	16	91	55	117	64	52	148	1190
Niddrie Central	66	891	220	28	246	127	174	142	112	293	2299
Ordinary Votes Total	683	9349	2622	215	2085	978	1821	1570	1291	2960	23574
Postal Votes	110	1530	237	77	229	139	147	154	132	161	2916
Early Votes	130	1819	538	49	487	172	226	169	134	420	4144
Marked As Voted Votes	2	9	1	0	2	1	3	1	4	3	26
Provisional Votes	11	95	22	5	31	12	26	10	10	16	238
Absent Votes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	936	12802	3420	346	2834	1302	2223	1904	1571	3560	30898
Percentage of formal vote polled by candidate	3.42%	46.83%	12.51%	1.27%	10.37%	4.76%	8.13%	6.96%	5.75%

VEC: Niddrie, Over 6,312 votes missing in 2CP count

VEC Published results (A 20:55 Today) shows a discrepancy of 6,312 votes on the false 2CP data.  Votes have either gone missing or been added to the count.  A discrepancy of over 6,000 votes is not minor error and raises ongoing concerns over the quality of the VEC counting and reporting procedures. 

Note the Total votes (20,614) and then add-up the 2CP results  (26,926 ).  Missing from the published results is the section votes (Postal, Absentee, Early and Provisional votes)

The VEC also has the Greens listed in error as  the preferred Candidate against Labor's Ben Carrol when Andrea Surace  has more votes with registered HTV preferences flowing to the ALP and Surace before the Greens.


 Published results as at 20:55

Niddrie District By-election 2012

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Recheck votes

Total Enrolment as at close of rolls:	36808
Formal Votes:	20614
Informal Votes:	2960 (12.56% of the total votes)
Total Votes:	23574 (64.05% of the total enrolment as at the close of rolls rechecked)

Note: ALP = AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY - VICTORIAN BRANCH, CDP = CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FRED NILE GROUP), DLP = DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY (DLP) OF AUSTRALIA, Greens = THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS - VICTORIA, Sex Party = AUSTRALIAN SEX PARTY - VICTORIA

Recheck first preference votes

Candidate	Party	1st pref votes	% of 1st pref votes
SCHOREL-HLAVKA, Gerrit Hendrik		683	3.31%
CARROLL, Ben	ALP	9349	45.35%
SURACE, Andrea		2622	12.72%
LINAKER, David Hugh		215	1.04%
LESTER, Josie	Greens	2085	10.11%
DEVERALA, Michael	DLP	978	4.74%
MYERS, Amy	Sex Party	1821	8.83%
LITTLE, Jim		1570	7.62%
PAPAFOTIOU, Frank	CDP	1291	6.26%
Click here for rechecked results by voting centre Top

Two candidate preferred vote

Candidate	Party	Preferred votes	% of preferred votes
CARROLL, Ben	ALP	19042	70.72%
LESTER, Josie	Greens	7884	29.28%
Click here for two candidate preferred results by voting centre

Please note that two candidate preferred counts provide an early indication of election results. Minor variations may be observed with rechecked results and final preference distributions (where required)

Niddrie By-election: VEC calls it wrong (again)

The Victorian Electoral Commission has called the 2CP results of the Niddrie Byelection wrong. It pitted the ALP off against the Greens. When in fact the Greens at best Will come in at third place and would not be facing off against the ALP.

How VEC made this error is anyone's guess. It certainly is not based on any professional assessment or the registered HTV cards submitted by other candidates. All HTV cards that expressed a preference placed the Greens last. The Green leaf fortune teller William Bowie made no mention of this fact in his blog of Green tea leaves. LOL