New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION FURTHER AMENDMENT (REFERENDUM) ACT 1930 - SECT 20

20 Informal ballot-papers

(1) A ballot-paper (including a postal voter’s ballot-paper and an absent voter’s ballot-paper) shall be informal if:

(a) it is not signed or initialled or does not bear a mark as required by the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 in respect of ballot-papers for an election,

(b) it has upon it any mark or writing not authorised by this Part to be put upon it, which, in the opinion of the returning officer, will enable any person to identify the voter, or

(c) the voter has failed to mark his or her vote in the manner directed on the ballot-paper.

(2) Informal ballot-papers shall be rejected at the scrutiny.