Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 34

             (1)  If the name of a person claiming to vote at a referendum appears on the certified list of voters at the polling booth at which the person claims to vote, the presiding officer or a polling official at the polling booth shall, immediately after handing to the person a ballot‑paper, place a mark against the person's name on the certified list of voters.

             (2)  The presiding officer at a polling place shall make a record of the name of each elector who casts a declaration vote at the polling place and, in the case of an absent voter, of the Division for which the elector declares under subsection 46(1) or (1A) that he or she is enrolled, and shall, at the close of the voting at the referendum, forward the record, duly certified by the presiding officer, in accordance with section 46A.

             (3)  Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, subsection (1) of this section does not require the placing of more than one mark against a person's name on a certified list of voters, and a presiding officer shall be deemed to have complied with subsection (2) of this section if he or she has complied with subsection 232(2) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 .