AEC responds after Jacinta Nampijinpa Price questions ‘conduct’ in Indigenous communities that voted yes
by Paul Karp and Eden Gillespie from World news | The Guardian on (#6FJS4)
Price claimed there was manipulation' in remote communities but electoral commission says ability to campaign at any polling place ... was the same for everyone'
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The Australian Electoral Commission has responded after the shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, questioned the impartiality of the commission's delivery of remote polling.
Price also suggested people handing out how-to-vote cards overpower vulnerable Aboriginal communities", when seeking to counter the fact many Indigenous communities had voted yes to a voice to parliament.
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