Lee also said revelations the Victorian government used a Chinese supplier linked to exploited Uighur workers for a train project also prompted him to run.
How will the VEC handle the record number of early votes.
There has been a record amount of early votes, but the VEC is only allowed to begin counting votes at 6pm on election day.
However, a recent change to the rules means vote counters can start sorting early votes from 8am on Saturday?
The VEC told The Age: “A legislative change made earlier this year allows us to extract and sort early votes from 8am on election day.
This differs from the 2018 Victorian election, when early votes were only allowed to be extracted and sorted from 4pm on election day.
The VEC will attempt to count all ordinary primary and 2CP votes on election night.
The VEC says this includes “most in-district early votes, and postal votes received and verified to date”.
Another voter in Richmond received a “personal” text from Dan Andrews last night:.
Southwick is facing opposition from Labor, the Greens and an independent which could further complicate the counting, but in the past postal votes and pre-polls have gone in his favour.
“What people need to remember, is that a lot of my vote gets won or lost by pre-poll and postal votes,” Southwick told The Age on Saturday.
“Until every last postal vote is counted, Caulfield can’t really be decided.
“I don’t think necessarily it will come down to election night.
“I’m very hopeful that I won not just her vote, but her young son’s vote in a future election,” Pesutto said after the discussion.
Liberal MP John Pesutto at a Hawthorn polling booth on election day.Credit:Eddie Jim.
Kiely said she still had not made up her mind as she headed into the polling booth.
He said he loved what Monique Ryan had wanted to do at May’s election, but in this state election he said he did not know very much about the teal candidate
Kennedy said he didn’t think anyone knew how Hawthorn would ultimately vote today
A number of Victorian voters have received Liberal-endorsed text messages today urging them to “ditch Dan”
The messages have been sent to voters in marginal seats, such as Caulfield, where Liberal incumbent David Southwick is under siege from independent Nomi Kaltmann and Labor candidate Lior Harel
A text message sent to Victorian voters calling for them to ‘Ditch Dan’ on Saturday morning
In 2016, the Queensland Labor Party sent an election-day text message to voters claiming Medicare was under threat from the Coalition
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