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If you want to make a protest vote, vote independent
With the polls showing Labor with an apparently unassailable lead for tomorrow many people will no doubt be considering casting a protest vote for the Liberal or National candidate in their electorate. If you are thinking of this you should think again &emdash; Jeff Kennet seemed unassailable in his last election campaign and then lost office on a protest vote lodged by voters who believed it would not elect the opposition.
The opposition is aware of this, which is why in the last days of the campaign they started admitting they could not win the election and have started suggesting people not let Labor win by too much &emdash; they are hoping enough people will lodge a protest vote to accidentally change the Government.
The best way to make a protest vote is to vote for independents and minor parties ahead of the major parties, but whatever you do, make sure that the order you put the major parties in reflects the party you would rather have win.