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The AEC maintains a permanent electoral roll, which is used for federal elections, by-elections and referendums. The federal electoral roll also forms the basis of state (except in Western Australia, which compiles its own) and local electoral rolls. [22] Each state and territory can regulate its own part of the federal electoral roll.
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 ...
Voting in federal, state and territory elections is compulsory for all persons on the electoral roll. [21] Voting can take place by a person attending in person at any polling place in their State on the election day or in early voting locations, or by applying for and mailing in a postal vote .
The federal Senate electoral system from 1984 to 2013, and those currently used for some state legislatures, provide for simultaneous registration of party-listed candidates and party-determined orders of voting preference, known as 'group voting tickets' or 'above the line voting' which involves placing the number '1' in a single box and the ...
Some councils use a single ballot paper, while others have an Australian Senate-style ballot paper with above-the-line and below-the-line voting. [16] Councils can be either undivided or be divided into wards ranging from two-member to five-member. [17] [18] Voting is compulsory for anyone on the New South Wales state electoral roll. [19]
Unions NSW challenged the act as unconstitutional. During the proceeding, a legislative committee of the NSW Parliament delivered a report recommending that the existing expenditure cap within the act of $20,000 be raised to $198,750. The NSW Government then conceded and submitted to the court that the act should be held invalid in its prior form.
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 elections voided and re-run.
The Electoral Act stipulates that the election campaign must run for a minimum of 25 days and a maximum of 55 days. Like all other states and territories voting in South Australia is compulsory, however unlike other states initial enrolment is not compulsory so a voter could theoretically not be compelled to vote if they chose never to enrol.