Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 121A
6 Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 121A
For section 121A(c) of the Act, each of the following classes of electors are prescribed—
special postal voters who are not detained in lawful custody;
distance voters;
out-of-State voters.
In this section—
distance voter—
means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, whose address, as shown on an electoral roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth; and
if the election is a by-election—also means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, who can not, for another reason, vote at a polling booth during the voting period for the by-election.Example of an elector for paragraph (b)—
an elector who will be absent from the elector’s electoral district for the whole of the voting period for the by-election
out-of-State voter, for an election, means an elector who is not in Queensland at any time during the voting period.
voting period, for an election, means the period—
starting on the first day that a pre-poll ordinary vote may be made for an election; and
ending when ordinary voting hours for the election ends.
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