Offences about influencing persons in relation to postal voting
100Q Offences about influencing persons in relation to postal voting
A person must not persuade or induce an elector, or associate with any other person in persuading or inducing an elector, to make a postal vote application.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.
A person must not persuade or induce an elector to hand over to them a postal ballot paper upon which a vote has been recorded.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to —
publishing advertising material authorised by the Electoral Commissioner or a returning officer that states that a person may vote in an election by means of postal voting or a postal ballot paper; or
actions taken by officers that are authorised by the Electoral Commissioner or a returning officer and relate to providing information that a person may vote in an election by means of postal voting or a postal ballot paper.
[Section 100Q inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 80.]
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