New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 129E

129E Lists and accounts of ballot papers

(1) Each returning officer shall:

(a) make out a final list of the total number of votes recorded for each candidate as ascertained by him or her from his or her scrutiny of the ballot papers referred to in section 129D (1) (a) (iii), as shown in the lists transmitted to or made out by him or her pursuant to section 129C (3), and

(b) make out an account in which he or she charges himself or herself with the number of ballot papers originally delivered to him or her or written out by election officials, specifying therein the number thereof delivered by election officials to and used by voters and the number not so delivered or left unused (the particulars in that account being ascertained from the accounts transmitted to him or her pursuant to section 129C (3) and from his or her own records).

(2) Every list and account made out by a returning officer pursuant to subsection (1) shall be verified by his or her signature and by the signatures of such scrutineers as are present and consent to sign them and shall be transmitted by him or her to the Electoral Commissioner.