Issue of ballot paper

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(1) If a person attends before an authorised officer for a division at a polling place during polling hours and claims to vote at the election, the officer must issue a ballot paper to the person for the division if:

(a) the person states the person's full name and, unless the person's address is suppressed, the person's address; and

(b) the officer is satisfied the certified list of voters for the division:

(i)

states the person's name; and

(ii) states an address for the person or indicates the person's address is suppressed; and

(iii) has not been marked to indicate a ballot paper has already been issued to the person; and

(c)

the person answers the voter's question in the affirmative.

(2) The officer must, immediately before issuing the ballot paper to the person:

(a)

record the issue on the certified list of voters; and

(b)

initial the back of the ballot paper.

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