Subhead:A system that drags Victorians to the polls under threat of a fine is now being turned against the very elites who love compulsory voting.#
YouTube-embed:HOKYQtqt21s
While the political class lectures us about “democracy,” a fresh wave of micro-parties in Victoria is exposing just how rigged and ridiculous the system really is. ‘The Free Palestine Party’, ‘Save the Environment Party’ and ‘Muslim Votes Matter’ have already smashed through the member requirement set by the Victorian Electoral Commission. Now a bold new political outfit the ‘Avoid The Fine’ party is targeting the 6 to 8 percent of voters who only show up to dodge the fine: the donkey and informal voters.
Their plan is simple: get Victorians to sign up at AvoidTheFine.com.au, hit the 750 registration target, and harvest votes from disengaged voters on election day. In marginal seats, capturing even a quarter of donkey and informal votes could flip the result.
Go now and help make this change in Victoria.
The ‘Avoid The Fine’ party is led by Daniel Smit. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he is the brother of Monica Smit, leader of the ‘Save the Environment’ Party. It is a family clearly committed to fighting for the rights of Victorians through democracy and accountability.
Leader of VIc Greens, @ellensandell , isn’t very happy with @OzraeliAvi and I 🙂
They’re worried Save The Environment Party will steal votes from them in November…which it certainly will!!!
The next party to register is Muslim Votes Matter.
They’ve got 500 members…they… pic.twitter.com/3dJpQzrSpF
— Monica Smit / Reignite Democracy (@reignitedem) May 8, 2026
Daniel Smit didn’t mince words when he spoke to me. Australia is one of the only Western countries still enforcing mandatory voting, he says, and people with no strong political view probably shouldn’t be voting at all. When challenged on the contradiction, why capture their votes if you don’t think they should vote, he agreed they shouldn’t be deciding our future, but pointed out that under our preferential system, those votes can still be captured and redirected anyway.
This isn’t just a cheeky protest party. It’s a referendum-by-proxy on how many Victorians are being forced to participate under duress. If it pulls even a half or quarter of the protest vote, it sends a clear message to Spring Street. And even if it wins no seats, the preferences still flow to conservative parties. “If I don’t win, then at least those votes will go where I choose.”
Daniel Smit openly admits the system isn’t fully democratic, but says it’s the one we’re stuck with. Those preferences, he confirmed, are heading straight to One Nation. He calls it a protest vote, noting that Labor and the Liberals have been “quite similar” in their failures for the past twenty years.
