Australia’s Strange Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Hits a New Low

This is just the latest in a long line of absurdities in this referendum campaign, which is not even a referendum but a survey.

Richard Glover, an Australian writer and broadcaster, writes in the Washington Post:

How should a country decide the issue of same-sex marriage? Most hold a referendum (Ireland, for example) or they leave it to a vote of their elected leaders (such as Germany).

In Australia, though, we’ve developed our own peculiar process. We’re going for a nonbinding, non-compulsory postal vote, which—for legal reasons—has to be dressed up as a survey.