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An advertisement in a Mackay newspaper, explaining to Cookslanders how to vote in the upcoming election.

Following Joh Bjelke-Petersen's dismissal by the provincial governor and the High Court's upholding of said dismissal, elections were scheduled to be held on Saturday, 19 June, 1981. Due to the extreme gerrymandering of Cooksland's electoral districts under the many years or Bjelke-Petersen's rule, it was judged that a fair election could not be conducted under that system, and so the decision was taken to conduct the election under the STV system, which had been in use in Tasmania and Princeland for many years. The notable difference was that the entire province was considered as one electorate, prompting an absolutely enormous ballot paper, containing every single candidate for the provincial legislature on the one paper. This was a new system to voters in Cooksland, used only to the preferential voting system used in their unicameral parliament. In response, the Independent Election Commission of Cooksland commenced the largest publicity campaign in the province's history to inform the voting public about the new system.

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