61,6% of Australians who participated in the public have voted 'yes'
GAYLES.TV.- A solid majority of Australians has voted "YES" to equal marriage. Of the 12,7 million of citizens who have participated in the plesbicito, Present in several = 61,6% has voted yes and Present in several = 38,4% has voted no. The participation has been of Present in several = 79,5%.
Last Tuesday November 7th the deadline for voting by mail to decide whether to legalize gay marriage in Australia. The vote comes after the Senate in August rejected a proposal to convene the plesbicito on the matter. On that occasion the absolute majority needed to debate this bill in the upper house was not reached, only 31 of the 76 legislators supported the proposal.
That is why a voluntary consultation through post mail. The past 12 of September distributed the ballots that had as deadline to give a response to the November 7. In the event that Australians are in favor of the legalization of equal marriage, it is expected to be legislated before December's 7.
The hidden message of the barcode
A small detail has unleashed the controversy in this postal voting. He bar-code of some ballots they have been involuntary protagonists of the public. It turns out that each of the ballots contains a computer-generated barcode. Among the millions that have been created there are some that include the word «bumsex«. This term is used colloquially to refer to anal sex. It would be more or less like the expression "up the ass."
The anecdote has forced the person in charge of Australian Buerau of Statistics, Jonathan Palmer to give explanations. Palmer he has apologized for the oversight and explained that the codes were issued using an algorithm that generates millions of combinations of letters and numbers at random. In that case, he admitted that words or phrases that could be offensive were not reviewed or eliminated. Chance did the rest.
Source: Actuall, Huffington Post,
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