This is getting WORSE:
Apparently not only did the Italian expats vote, but they actually elected people who live in Australia, NOT Italy, to the Italian Senate.
This should not be allowed. If someone wants to be part of the Italian government, one would think they should actually LIVE in Italy.
Of course these are actual COMMUNISTS.
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Berlusconi contests election of two Australians
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18799660%5E421,00.html
Senators elected from Italy's global expatriate community - including Melbourne journalist Nino Randazzo - decided the outcome of Italy's photo-finish election on Monday.
The victory of four left-wing senators pushed Romano Prodi's Union opposition over the line, handing him a two-seat majority in the Italian Senate.
A communist social worker from Melbourne, Marco Fedi, was elected to the lower house Chamber of Deputies, where Mr Prodi holds a comfortable majority. But Mr Berlusconi is contesting the result on the grounds of "irregularities" in the expatriate vote.
Reading this other article, it seems the leftists were playing dirty tricks, there may be more votes from Australia, than there are expats there, and the leftists sent out campaign material, in Italian Embassy envelopes, making it seem as if it came from there.