Australian Electoral Commission criticised over conduct in Craig Kelly campaign poster dispute
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Lock Points Craig Kelly took part in the federal court in a dispute with AEC 2022 Campaign Posters Craig Kelly appeared in a disagreement with AEC about the 2022 campaign posters with AEC, and criticized AC for not giving AEC enough information in the dispute. Justice Steven Rares criticized AEC for not providing enough information to Mr. Kelly.Mr. Kelly told the court that theft of his posters were "common" during the campaign. Mr. Kelly is followed by AEC for saying that there were 22 election laws on vertisement of 22 election laws led by last year's elections in a legal case. The eight-point font first edition of authorization information in posters which regulator claims to be "unacceptable" small small. After receiving letter from AEC, Mr. Kelly increased the font size in a later printing study and ordered it to be stuck in the original material as tagged solution. The Australian Election Commission was criticized for his behavior in a disagreement with former Federal Deputy Craig Kely. However, despite the photos allegedly non -compatible posters, AEC did not claim that he immediately claimed the location of posters to Mr. Kelly. During the seriousness of the accusation, Justice Steven Rares questioned AEC's behavior today. Justice Rares said that not being able to explain the location of posters does not reflect the regulator well. The judge would think that during an election campaign, your client would be careful to say that you were contrary to people, you mislead, withdraw people, or make them corrected '. "I do not think that this is suitable way for an organizer to behave, especially where he said to the court, this was a very serious punishment and precautionary precaution at the beginning. "Nevertheless, you do not tell the person who committed what you say is a serious conflict where it is, so can correct it - if they say are willing to correct it." Tran told court that maximum penalty was 26,640 dollars, and requirements authorization information of Mr. Kelly that vertisement Kelly were "reasonable" fell "very short". He argued that this should be interpreted as "outstanding and easy to see" and said that the eight -point font was "objectively very small". The court said that poster theft is 'rife' Mr. Kelly's advisor.Christopher Ward SC argued yesterday that information could be read and this was just a distance issue and that an ordinary person could do it one meter away. Mr. Kelly gave evidence said first received court that he had received AEC letter and a low -resolution photo, thought it was a "a little joke", but there were stickers printed from the concern regulator would be "pedantic right". The court told the printing company that he trusted advice about font size and experience in previous elections. The court was told that most of the posters were stolen shortly after it was placed. "Theft was common," Mr. Kelly said. "Our signs were regularly attacked and falsified and removed as quickly as we could."