39
In forceBallot security
39 Ballot security
(1)
The manager of an election or ballot must ensure each ballot paper for the election—
(a)
has a watermark or other distinctive pattern that prevents it from being reproduced other than by the manager or someone authorised by the manager; and
(b)
is of a type of paper that hides a vote marked on it from view when it is folded once.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2)
However, subsection (1) does not make an electoral officer liable for an offence.
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