Dear Australian political parties
If you send me unsolicited SMS linking me to a barely branded site to collect my personal data (without a privacy policy) under the guise of registering for a “postal vote”, that’s phishing and I will report it as such.
For me, the worst part is that after you enter your data into the site you are linked to, you are then redirected to the Electoral Commission site, where you have to enter your information all over again to properly register. How many folks will think that’s the “successfully registered” page and consider themselves registered for a postal vote? Plenty, I will bet.
It’s a terrible and misleading experience.