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ELECTORAL ACT - SECT 72

Casting declaration vote

    (1)     Subject to section 87, this section prescribes the requirements for the casting of a declaration vote by an elector issued a declaration ballot paper under section 71.

    (2)     After the issue of the declaration ballot paper to the person, the person must, without delay:

        (a)     go to an unoccupied voting compartment at the pre-election voting centre and there, in private:

            (i)     mark his or her vote on the ballot paper; and

            (ii)     fold the ballot paper to conceal the vote; and

        (b)     place the ballot paper in a ballot box at the centre or, if the centre is not in the region in which the person's enrolled division is situated, place it in an envelope bearing the name of the division and the centre, seal the envelope and place it in a ballot box at the centre; and

        (c)     leave the centre.



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