Image: Liberal party voting boards translated into English.
A Federal Court has declared that Josh Frydenberg and Gladys Liu
can keep their seats after a challenge over the legality of their
election signage, but the court
has suggested there may still be a case to answer for.
When voters turned up at voting booths in the electorates of
Kooyong (represented by Mr Frydenberg) and Chisholm (represented by
Gladys Liu) in May 2019, they were greeted by signage in Chinese
Language.
The story so far
Both electorates have a high percentage of Mandarin-speaking
voters and the signs told these voters that the 'correct'
way to vote was to put 1 by the Liberal candidate's name'.
The signs were not the colours of the Liberal Party, but similar
colours to the official Australian Electoral
Commission (AEC) – purple and white.
