Electoral Regulations 2022

Subject to subregulation (2), an election official must ask a person claiming to vote by electronic voting in accordance with this Part the following questions—

What is your full name?

Where do you live?

Have you voted before in this election?

The election official must not ask the question specified in subregulation (1)(b) if the elector is a silent elector or an itinerant elector.

The election official must reject a person's claim to vote by electronic voting in accordance with this Part if the person—

refuses to answer fully the questions asked; or

answers the question specified in subregulation (1)(c) in the affirmative.

The election official must not reject a claim to vote by electronic voting in accordance with this Part as a result of any mistake in the electoral roll if the voter is sufficiently identified in the opinion of the election official.

For the purposes of section 92 of the Act, a person entitled to vote in accordance with this Part may be given access to an electronic ballot-paper.

If an elector given access to an electronic ballot‑paper has complied with the voting instructions provided and the vote is processed by the computer program, the elector is to be taken for the purposes of sections 93 and 93A of the Act to have marked the elector's vote on the ballot‑paper in accordance with those sections.

For the purposes of section 93(6) of the Act, an elector using electronic voting is to be taken to have deposited the elector's vote in the ballot-box when the elector submits the elector's electronic ballot-paper using the computer program approved under this Part.