A PARLIAMENTARY committee will seek public input on the federal election as the Liberal party urges Labor to support an overhaul of the Senate voting system.
Liberal federal director Brian Loughnane has called for parliament's joint standing committee on electoral matters to launch a broad review of the 2013 election.
"It has become increasingly clear in recent elections that parts of our electoral system are not functioning as they should," Mr Loughnane told the National Press Club on Wednesday.
"There are some warning signs which should give concern and which should be honestly examined."
He said there was "confusion" for voters with 529 candidates nominated for 40 Senate vacancies, including 110 in NSW and 97 in Victoria.
Preference deals between micro parties - put together by a new breed of electoral "entrepreneurs" - had distorted the Senate result, Mr Loughnane said.
Party insiders believe the Liberal Democrats' 9.5 per cent vote in the NSW senate - a far cry from the 2.3 per cent achieved in 2010 - was due to voter confusion about the name and the party's first-place position on the ballot paper.
The laws governing enrolment and voter identification, which currently has a lower requirement than signing up to a DVD library, should also be examined, he said.
Mr Loughnane also wants the parliamentary committee to look at advertising spending, having estimated billionaire Clive Palmer was outspending the Labor party towards the end of the campaign.
"The fact that somebody can lob in and spend $15-$20 million has an impact," he said.
Palmer United Party federal leader Clive Palmer urged Prime Minister Tony Abbott to discipline Mr Loughnane for suggesting the Liberals collude with Labor to counter the minor parties in the Senate.
"This is just an attack on democracy and highlights how the major parties want Australia to be run by a duopoly dictatorship," he said in a statement.
He said Australians showed their disappointment with the major parties at the election, which is why his party did so well in its election debut.
Mr Palmer also denied claims that his party had spent more than the ALP during the final week of the election campaign.
Special minister for State Michael Ronaldson says he will ask the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to inquire into the conduct of the 2013 federal election.
"Members of the community are entitled and encouraged to make a submission to the Committee," he said in a statement.
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