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AEC registration covers federal, state and local election voter enrolment. In Australia and in each state or territory, it is an offence to fail to vote without valid or sufficient reason, at any federal or state election, and may be punishable by a nominal monetary penalty. The amount varies between federal and state jurisdictions.
In March 2022, the NSW Electoral Commission announced that it would not use the iVote online voting system for the 2023 state election, following technical glitches during the 2021 local elections. Advocates for blind and low-vision people subsequently accused the Commission of unlawful discrimination over the removal of the accessible voting ...
A candidate or Senate group is eligible for election funding if they obtain at least 4% of the first preference vote in the division or the state or territory they contested. The amount payable is calculated by multiplying the number of first preference (i.e., primary) votes received by the rate of payment applicable at the time.
Unlike most jurisdictions which close updating of electoral records with reference to a number of days before an election, commonly 14 or 28 days, or allow registration at the same time as attending a polling station to vote, Australia closes its rolls 7 days after an election is called, rather than with reference to the election day.
At the 2010 Tasmanian state election, with a turnout of 335,353 voters, about 6,000 people were fined $26 for not voting, and about 2,000 paid the fine. [39] A postal vote is available for those for whom it is difficult to attend a polling station.
The online voting system iVote was not used in this election. The NSW government suspended iVote after the 2021 NSW local council elections saw five wards impacted by access outages, with three significant enough that analysis suggested as high as a 60% chance the wrong candidate had been elected, after which the NSW Supreme Court ordered those ...
Unions NSW & Ors v. State of New South Wales is a decision of the High Court of Australia. [1] [2] [3] The decision is significant as an application of Australia's the 'freedom of political communication' doctrine under the Australian Constitution. The court applied the doctrine to decide that provisions in NSW's Electoral Funding Act.
2011 New South Wales state election – Barry O'Farrell led the Liberal National Coalition to a landslide victory defeating the incumbent Labor Party Premier, Kristina Keneally with 64.22% of the two-party-preferred vote. The incoming government received 69 of the 93 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party by contrast ...