ANN Brennan (The Border Mail, October 3) is correct.
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The voting system does need an urgent overhaul.
Election after election we are presented with a choice of professional politicians, either long-term union officials with dodgy pasts or on the other side long-term political aides who are out of touch with the real world.
The only thing they have in common is disdain for “ordinary” Australians and a well-developed knowledge of how to maximise their entitlements.
The first reform needed is to abolish compulsory voting — as I see it, voting only encourages the bastards.
— FRANK SMITH,
Oaklands