M. Roberts did get more than 77 votes Justis.
In fact he got 209,430 votes.
http://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Website/External/SenateStateDop-20499-QLD.pdf
Count 830 -840 ......................................Count 841
X HANSON, P. ON 209,475 Elected
209,475 Elected
X ROBERTS, M. ON 206,156 3,274
209,430 Elected
X ANNING, F. ON 0 0 Excluded 0 0 Excluded
Justis, instead of repeating the inane 77 votes pointless trivia, why don't you pick on some of the Greens, XEN, LP and ALP senators who also got small first pref' vote' numbers because they weren't listed first on their party tickets, like say the second [103 votes] and the third [129 votes] XEN party SA senators who both got around 100 votes and yet both still ended up
being elected ahead of Sarah Hanson-Young with the third XEN guy having nearly 14,000 votes surplus of a quota which were then distributed before SHY got her quota.
Maybe you should prosecute the case that the fourth South Aust. XEN candidate on the XEN party ticket, T Storer, should have got a senate seat simply because he/she got nearly double the first votes [189] that the two Elected XEN senators immediately above T Storer on the ballot paper got.
KAKOSCHKE-MOORE S. [XEN] was elected as the tenth SA senator ahead of eleventh, SH-Y [Greens] and twelfth, Bob Day [FFP].
South Australia - Result of the Transfer and Distribution of Preferences
Quota =
81,629
Candidate .....Votes Status Transfd Totals Status Transfd Totals Status Transfd Totals Status
XENOPHON N. XEN
230,282 Elected 0 230,282 Elected 0 230,282 Elected -148,653 81,629 Elected
GRIFF S. XEN
103 64 167 255 422 142,644 143,066 Elected
KAKOSCHKE-MOORE S. XEN
129 2 131 22 153 520 673 [eventually elected]
STORER T. XEN
189 1 190 25 215 413 628
