30K views · 769 reactions | Sky News host Peta Credlin says the Australian electoral system needs improvements to "boost safeguards" against fraud because it’s not tamper-proof and “power hungry people have a tendency to manipulate the system”. | Sky News Australia | Facebook

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is investigating how almost two thousand votes went missing from a Sydney voting station on election night. The ballots were recovered from a temporary election worker’s home several days later. The AEC has confirmed the missing votes had already been counted on election night, meaning the incident did not impact the ultimate result in the seat of Barton. Get the news that matters to you straight from the source. Download the ABC NEWS app: https://ab.co/