LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 83 How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—optional-preferential voting

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 83

83 How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—optional-preferential voting

(1) This section applies if the system of voting at an election is optional-preferential voting.

(2) An elector must record a vote in accordance with—

(a) if the elector votes using electronically assisted voting—the procedures approved under section 75A (3) ; or

(b) otherwise— subsection (3) or (4) .

(3) An elector records a vote on a ballot paper by—

(a) to record a first-preference vote—writing on the ballot paper the numeral 1, or a tick or a cross, in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom the elector wishes to cast a first-preference vote; and

(b) to record a preference vote—writing the numerals 2, 3, and so on (in regular arithmetical sequence by intervals of 1 whole numeral) in other squares to record the order of the elector’s preferences for the other candidates.

(4) An elector is only required to record a first-preference vote on a ballot paper but may also record preference votes for 1 or more, but not necessarily all, of the candidates.