Nothing that you have posted re the AEC invalidates the fact that one does not need to cast a vote unless you want to go down the rabbit hole that a person placing a blank ballot paper in the appropriate receptacle is casting a vote.
You might also be surprised that one does not need to provide photo id to cast a vote.
Does the AEC specify how they ensure that the elector has cast a vote? There is no imperative that the elector casts a vote. Similarly, there is no way that the AEC knows whether an elector has cast a vote.
Just as a matter of curiosity what does “register with the registrar” mean?
So why have the law? Because appearances over rules substance?
Apparently it is a joke of a system and all this talk about how patriotic Aussies are for having a high vote count is ■■■■■■■■■
What part of this do you not understand?
Under the Electoral Act, the actual duty of the elector is to attend a polling place, have their name marked off the certified list, receive a ballot paper and take it to an individual voting booth, mark it, fold the ballot paper and place it in the ballot box.
The AEC (federal and states) aim is to get 100% of registered electors vote in our elections.
Tell us something else we already know.
Which electoral act are you referring to?
The link has been provided, surely you can actually click on it and read?
I quoted it right off of the official website.
Voting is Compulsory
The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 , under section 245(1), states: “It shall be the duty of every elector to vote at each election”.
Under the Electoral Act, the actual duty of the elector is to attend a polling place, have their name marked off the certified list, receive a ballot paper and take it to an individual voting booth, mark it, fold the ballot paper and place it in the ballot box.
It is not the case, as some people have claimed, that it is only compulsory to attend the polling place and have your name marked off, and this has been upheld by a number of legal decisions:
- High Court 1926 – Judd v McKeon (1926) 38 CLR 380
- Supreme Court of Victoria 1970 – Lubcke v Little [1970] VR 807
- High Court 1971 – Faderson v Bridger (1971) 126 CLR 271
- Supreme Court of Queensland 1974 – Krosch v Springbell; ex parte
- Krosch [1974] QdR 107
- ACT Supreme Court 1981 – O’Brien v Warden (1981) 37 ACTR 13
Do you need it read aloud for you or can you actually read for yourself?
Apparently not since you just stated no one can prove if people have marked their ballot.
You aren’t voting in that case you are just showing up and wasting people’s time and throwing an unmarked ballot in a box.
Each ballot is checked. You are required to mark it by law.
That would not be the correct act for Western Australian elections.
When are the ballot papers checked?
The entire country follows the same law, it’s national.
Just give it up, this is not utterly pointless, your own Election Commission’s official website shows your claims to be utterly false.
Stupid questions get the response they deserve.
On 16 July 1924, Senator Payne introduced the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1924 as a private member’s bill to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to make voting compulsory in federal elections. He felt some action was required following the record low voter turnout (59.38 per cent) at the 1922 federal election. However, neither the government nor the opposition had compulsory voting on their platforms. Intriguingly, the law to make voting compulsory apparently passed through the Parliament in only 15 minutes and in neither house was a division required — therefore, no votes were recorded against the bill. This was only the third private member’s bill to be passed into law since 1901. Senator Payne explained the principle behind his Bill:
The impact of the new Bill was immediate, with turnout at the 1925 election rising to over 91%. After this, other states quickly followed: Victoria in 1926, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1928 and Western Australia in 1936. South Australia added compulsory voting for its House Assembly in 1942.
Unless there are extenuating circumstances with respect to a specific elector (e.g. vision impaired) there is absolutely no intervention by anyone once a ballot paper has been issued between the elector receiving a ballot paper and that elector placing the ballot paper in the appropriate receptacle. The receptacles are not opened prior to the close of the election.
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Florida, the third largest State in the nation, has been using no excuse vote by mail for 18 years without issue.
REPUBLICANS led the way in setting the system up.
Not a lib dream come to fruition.
It was a conservative Republican creation from start to finish.
And it has worked flawlessly.
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There is of course no actual fact supporting your claim but then there hasn’t been from the start as your own laws show.
Western Australian elections are not run under a federal government statute.
