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Despite years of research, nobody knows how to provide evidence of an accurate result while keeping individual e-votes private.
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Final pre-election Australian polls have usually been accurate, at least on primary votes.
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What are the key policy issues on which the 2016 federal election will be fought?
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Associate Professor in Law and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Education Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland