Great moments in absentee voting

Submitted by Rick Eyre on September 6 2008, 7:37 pm

Let's hope today's Western Australian state election isn't decided by 29 votes or less. The people of Eucla, near the South Australian border and more than 1400 kilometres from Perth, have been disenfranchised from today's poll. The state electoral commission forgot to organise a polling booth and then couldn't get the postal votes to them in time.

The West Australian takes up the story.