New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 108

108 Assistance to certain electors

(1) If an elector satisfies an election official that his or her sight is so impaired or that he or she is so physically incapacitated that he or she is unable to vote without assistance, the election official shall permit a person appointed by the elector to enter an unoccupied compartment of the booth with the elector and mark, fold and deposit the elector’s ballot paper for him or her.

(2) If any such elector fails to appoint a person in pursuance of subsection (1), or if any elector satisfies an election official that he or she is so illiterate that he or she is unable to vote without assistance, the election official, in the presence of such scrutineers as are present, or if there are no scrutineers present, then in the presence of:

(a) another election official, or

(b) if the elector so desires, in the presence of a person appointed by such elector, instead of an election official,

shall mark the ballot paper according to the instruction of such elector, and shall fold and deposit the ballot paper in the ballot box.