LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 84 How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—first-past-the-post voting

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 84

84 How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—first-past-the-post voting

(1) This section applies if the system of voting at an election is first-past-the-post voting.

(1A) 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 (2) or (3) .

(2) An elector records a vote on a ballot paper by writing on the ballot paper—

(a) if 1 candidate is to be elected—the numeral 1, or a tick or cross, in the square opposite the name of the candidate whom the elector prefers; or

(b) if 2 or more candidates are to be elected—

(i) the numeral 1, or a tick or a cross, in the square opposite the name of 1 candidate for whom the elector wishes to vote; and

(ii) the numerals 2, 3 and so on in the squares opposite the names of the other candidates for whom the elector wishes to vote, up to the number of candidates to be elected.