Senator Online Post Election Website Description
www.senatoronline.org.au will be the heart of SOL.
The SOL website will:
- Provide accurate information and balanced argument
- Tally votes and determine the majority view
Website security will be paramount.
Access to accurate information and balanced argument
A drop-down list will set out for:
- All bills before Parliament
- Important issues facing our community
After selecting a bill or issue, the user may choose from a drop-down list offering:
- A summary of the bill or issue
- The unabridged version of the bill
- The pros and cons of each bill or issue
- Our Senator's views
- Expert opinions
- Access to the SOL Forum where poll members can comment and read other poll member's comments
Expert opinions
For each bill and current issue presented on the site, the user will be able to read expert opinions about relevant points. To ensure the validity of an expert’s credentials authenticity will be verified before any comment is available for consideration. Each expert's validated credentials will also be posted.
The SOL Forum
Poll members will be able to log a comment and endorse up to three other comments on each bill and current issue.
The user will be able to list all comments either by the most recently listed or the highest number of endorsements.
Important Issues
Poll members will be able to suggest an issue to be included as a current important issue. Issues receiving 10,000 or more endorsements will be included as current important issues.
Issues will only be included if they are considered to be balanced.
SOL poll member registration
Everyone on Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Roll who has access to the internet will be able to register online as a poll member. Registration will be free. All poll members will then be able to vote, suggest an issue and have access to the Forum.
SOL will ensure that each person on Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Roll has only one vote.
The poll member registration process will check the person’s full name, address and date of birth against Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Roll. Additionally it is likely we will use additional verification procedures to ensure it difficult for fraudulent registrations. See FAQ #14. On satisfactory verification, that person will receive a user ID and password which the user will confirm online to activate their membership. The process will reduce people signing on as others and ensure that each person on Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Roll has only one poll membership and therefore only one vote on each bill or issue.
We will contact you for the issues that interest you
At registration time poll members will be asked which bills or issues they would like to be notified about by email. A poll member may receive notice on every bill before Parliament and all issues on the website or just those that affect that member.
Once Registered
Once a poll member signs on to the site, they will see the bills and issues they have voted on and those they can vote on now. This page allows a poll member to:
- Vote on a bill or issue
- Change their vote on any current bill or issue
- Review and alter the bills or issues they asked to be notified about
- Suggest an issue
- Endorse another poll member’s suggested issue
- Join the Forum
- Endorse comments from the Forum
The voting page
There will be a drop-down list of current bills and issues. Poll members will be able to vote or change their vote on each bill or issue.
The real-time status of the vote tally for all bills and issues, current and archived, will be available in the following formats: by total, state or territory, postcode, gender, and age.
