The minority Palaszczuk government reintroduced compulsory preferential voting in 2016. David Crisafulli has vowed to once again make it optional.
Compulsory preferential voting would be scrapped under an LNP government, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli promised on Saturday – nine weeks out from the Queensland state election.attaching amendments to an opposition billOptional preferential voting had been in place since 1992, when the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission recommended its reintroduction – CPV had been in place since 1962.
“If you want to vote just one, you can, and if … we were to win and the electoral laws would change, you would have the ability to vote just one, or one and two, or one through to seven. “What I was critical of the Palaszczuk government on, is it should have been subjected to an independent process,” he said.
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