NumberEveryBox.au
This tool, NumberEveryBox.au, is designed to help you vote beneath the line on the big white Senate ballot paper in the 2025 Australian federal election. Prepare your own HTV ahead of polling day so the important task of precisely numbering every single box without skipping or duplicating any numbers is stress-free – simply copy the page with the decisions you’ve already made!
Democracy
Origin
late 15th century: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule’.
DEMOCRACY is a word which means the rule of the people. Citizens in a democracy have the heavy responsibility to influence the future justice and welfare of their nation, neighbours and family.
Voters become smarter and more influential when they refuse to give away their power and refuse to follow anyone else’s HTV (How To Vote recommendations).
Why number every box? To make it as hard as possible for The Greens to get elected to the Senate. (More below…)
Too many voters expect democracy to be easy and convenient. Voting is a civic duty best suited to people who care enough about the future of their family and nation to invest the time and effort into careful deliberation instead of a reluctant rush.
Our culture has grown lazy and accustomed to letting mainstream media journalists and social media influencers tell us which policies matter and which parties to vote for. The overwhelming majority of voters give away their power to strangers who tell them how to vote with HTVs. These usually encourage a bare minimum effort, treating voters like uneducated children.
The result is a population easily manipulated by feelings instead of the facts discovered with personal effort.
Instead, as rulers exercising significant power, we should conduct our own research via resources published by multiple trusted sources and discussion with trusted, mature friends. Finally, let every person refuse to give their vote away by following someone else’s HTV, and instead make their own HTV and decision on how to number every box on their ballot paper.
By numbering every box (instead of the bare minimum to make you ballot valid) you make sure your voice is still being heard right up until the last Senate quotas (seats) are being counted.
- You do not give any support or help at all to the candidate or party you give your lowest possible preference to. In fact, by putting the “Greens” (or other) last, you make it as hard as possible for them to get a quota (Senate seat).
- By doing the bare minimum, you may in fact be helping the candidates you prefer the least get elected! If there are less ballots being counted because you stopped numbering boxes too early, even though your ballot was valid, it simply has no influence left and the decision may be made by people with the complete opposite agenda to you.
- All you have to do is “turn up” by numbering every box to still have a say. Refusing to give someone your second last and last preference does not hurt them, it only silences you – in effect helping them.
Instructions
First, choose your state to preload the list of all candidates which will appear on your ballot in the same order as they will be printed by the Australian Electoral Commission. The default layout is the visually familiar ballot layout, but you can alternately choose to display as a list you can rearrange according to your preferences.
Second, click and drag the available preference numbers into the boxes beside candidate names. If using the ordered list layout, drag the name of the person you wish to give your first preference to to the top of the list, then continue to rearrange the list until it represents how you wish to number the available candidates. You can change your mind and rearrange things anytime.
Finally, specify your email address so you can save your custom HTV and have it instantly sent to you.
Note: Senate ballots are usually big and crowded, so to view more information, this tool is best used on bigger screens. It may also help to rotate handhelds device to landscape (horizontal).