Counting postal, absent and provisional votes
142A Counting postal, absent and provisional votes
The Electoral Commissioner may direct an officer (a directed officer) to count, under the direction of the Electoral Commissioner, postal ballot papers, and absent votes and provisional votes cast under Division 3A Subdivision 3.
A directed officer must certify in writing addressed to the returning officer for the district concerned the number of votes or first preference votes, as the case may be, given for each candidate on postal ballot papers, and absent voters’ ballot papers and ballot papers used for provisional voting under Division 3A Subdivision 3, counted by the directed officer.
A directed officer may communicate to the returning officer for the district concerned the number of votes or first preference votes, as the case may be, given for each candidate on postal ballot papers, and absent voters’ ballot papers and ballot papers used for provisional voting under Division 3A Subdivision 3, counted by the directed officer, and the returning officer in ascertaining the result of the poll may act upon the information so received.
A directed officer must, as soon as possible after completing the count of the votes on such postal ballot papers, absent voters’ ballot papers and ballot papers used for provisional voting under Division 3A Subdivision 3, transmit the same in the prescribed manner to the returning officer for the district concerned.
[Section 142A inserted: No. 63 of 1948 s. 21; amended: No. 58 of 1951 s. 18; No. 57 of 1952 s. 11; No. 40 of 1987 s. 69 and 84; No. 79 of 1987 s. 63; No. 36 of 2000 s. 48(1), 52 and 68; No. 30 of 2023 s. 89.]
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