New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 122

122 Informal ballot papers

(1) A ballot paper shall be informal if:

(a) it is not duly initialled by an election official or pre-poll voting officer, as the case may require, or

(b) the voter has failed to record his or her vote in the manner directed on the ballot paper, or

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

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