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Group ticket voting in Victoria has again been in the news a lot lately - see my latest article about whether abolishing it would assist One Nation. With this latest discussion has come a resurgence of a longrunning online urban myth concerning the shortlived Sack Dan Andrews party (or more formally Restore Democracy: Sack Dan Andrews Party) in the 2022 Victorian election. The myth is that this party was set up to harvest the votes of people who hated former Victorian Premier Andrews and channel these votes back to Labor. The reality is that while there is a disputed claim that Sack Dan Andrews (SDA) was a siphoning attempt of some sort, Labor gained no benefit from it anyway, and it had nothing to do with the party. This article explores the reality of this short-lived party's preferences and its actual impact on the election in detail. For those on twitter I also have a shorter version of events on a thread here.
