Gay Legal Academic questions the legitimacy of Homosexual Marriage Survey
Professor David Flint , a retired gay legal academic who opposes marriage equality , has argued the legitimacy of the Yes result of the postal survey. Appearing on 2GB last night, Flint attacked the legitimacy of the postal survey and called for the result, to be revealed next week, to be dismissed. When told that nearly 80 per cent of voters had returned their forms, he asked, “How many of them are genuine?” That's the real issue. Flint alleged that there were fraudulent enrollments on the electoral roll which will have inflated the Yes vote and that new enrollments in the lead up to the survey were not adequately vetted for legitimacy. He also said that postal survey forms could easily have been copied, despite the fact that survey forms are uniquely bar-coded and could not be scanned twice. “The voting form, which hasn’t even been initialled by an official, is easily copied,” he said. “So, when the bar-code is read, will it be determined in the presence of independent scr