T here is less than a fortnight to go before Australians vote on the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
But even after weeks of official campaigning, and months of maneuvering prior to that, there is still plenty of disinformation floating around.
The Australian Electoral Commission urges voters to consider the source of all information they come across, but online falsehoods seeking to undermine trust in Australia's electoral system are a sadly durable feature of the modern political landscape.
EXPLAINED: Where, when and how do I vote on the Voice?
These are some of the ones - largely drawn from social media - the AEC has debunked in the lead-up to the October 14 referendum.
This is a claim that has gained volume after COVID-19-affected elections, particularly in the US, saw record numbers of postal votes sent.
But the AEC said Australia's postal votes system had many levels of security, including security marks on the ballots, checking against the voter roll, and counting in secure AEC facilities, before multiple levels of scrutiny.
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"The AEC provides pencils as they do not smudge when a ballot paper is folded, they can be stored and re-used from one event to the next, they don't run dry in tropical locations and they are cheaper than other implements."
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