New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 99

99 Questions to be put to voter

(1) An election official shall put the following questions to each person attending before him or her and claiming to vote in an election or elections:

(a) What is your full name?

(a1) What is your date of birth?

(b) Where do you reside?

(c) Have you voted before in this election? or Have you voted before in these elections? (as the case requires)

(2) In addition to the questions put under subsection (1), an election official shall ask each person claiming to vote as an absent voter in an election to identify the electoral district for which the person is enrolled.

(4) If the answers to the questions specified in subsection (1) (a), (a1) and (b) that are given by a person claiming to vote are not sufficient to distinguish that person from another person on the roll, the election official may, for the purpose of distinguishing the 2 persons, ask the person claiming to vote another question or other questions relating to matters shown on the roll in relation to those persons.

(5) Subject to section 99A, if a person claiming to vote to whom questions are put under this section:

(a) refuses to answer fully any question so put to the person,

(b) so answers the question specified in subsection (1) (b) as to indicate that the person is not entitled to vote by virtue of section 24, or

(c) answers a question specified in subsection (1) (c) in the affirmative,

the person’s claim to vote in the election for the district shall be rejected.