Hi all,
I posted about a year ago when this issue just occurred. But I believe that the Australian Electoral Commission AEC have acted illegally.
Since there is no Federal corruption body, and I have already applied for documents through FOI, how can I take legal action against the AEC?
Here is a summary, which I submitted to a review committee, so this has made public:
I am the co-founder of the Federal political party called “Stop Selling Australia” party.
In 2019 we submitted a list of over 550 members with the expectation of getting the Federal Political party “Stop Selling Australia” party registered for the 2019 election.
The AEC validated that we did in fact have the minimum number of registered members of 500, and then set out to validate individual members.
They seemed to be delaying this process, and as the election was nearing, we mentioned that legal action might occur if they delayed the registration process any more.
The following weekend I received a tip-off that the AEC were planning to fail our registration “to avoid litigation.”
That Friday, we received notification from the AEC that our party had failed the registration process, as two of the 26 members they checked “denied” being members. The allowance was one “denial”.
We asked who they were, and the AEC refused to tell us due to “privacy” reasons.
We made an FOI request to obtain the email responses of the two “denials”, and they refused to provide them, even with personal information removed from the email.
We contacted the Information Commissioner and after a 7 month process, they directed the AEC to complete the FOI request.
The AEC then provided us with one email “denial” and refused to provide any further information.
They claimed that they have fulfilled the FOI request!
The Information Commissioner has referred the matter to their next level of investigations, which will take around 12 months to complete!
I have made an online complaint to the AEC directly on their website and clicked on the “I do want to be contacted” and I have heard nothing!
I want to know why the AEC is refusing to provide the second email “denial”.
I believe that this second denial does not exist. Therefore our party should have been registered before the last election. What is the AEC hiding?
So how can I even take the AEC to court when I cannot obtain the evidence that the second "denial email" does not exist?
THANKS!
I posted about a year ago when this issue just occurred. But I believe that the Australian Electoral Commission AEC have acted illegally.
Since there is no Federal corruption body, and I have already applied for documents through FOI, how can I take legal action against the AEC?
Here is a summary, which I submitted to a review committee, so this has made public:
I am the co-founder of the Federal political party called “Stop Selling Australia” party.
In 2019 we submitted a list of over 550 members with the expectation of getting the Federal Political party “Stop Selling Australia” party registered for the 2019 election.
The AEC validated that we did in fact have the minimum number of registered members of 500, and then set out to validate individual members.
They seemed to be delaying this process, and as the election was nearing, we mentioned that legal action might occur if they delayed the registration process any more.
The following weekend I received a tip-off that the AEC were planning to fail our registration “to avoid litigation.”
That Friday, we received notification from the AEC that our party had failed the registration process, as two of the 26 members they checked “denied” being members. The allowance was one “denial”.
We asked who they were, and the AEC refused to tell us due to “privacy” reasons.
We made an FOI request to obtain the email responses of the two “denials”, and they refused to provide them, even with personal information removed from the email.
We contacted the Information Commissioner and after a 7 month process, they directed the AEC to complete the FOI request.
The AEC then provided us with one email “denial” and refused to provide any further information.
They claimed that they have fulfilled the FOI request!
The Information Commissioner has referred the matter to their next level of investigations, which will take around 12 months to complete!
I have made an online complaint to the AEC directly on their website and clicked on the “I do want to be contacted” and I have heard nothing!
I want to know why the AEC is refusing to provide the second email “denial”.
I believe that this second denial does not exist. Therefore our party should have been registered before the last election. What is the AEC hiding?
So how can I even take the AEC to court when I cannot obtain the evidence that the second "denial email" does not exist?
THANKS!