Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) When a large
number of electors is likely to vote at a polling place, the
Returning Officer may subdivide a polling place into sections, and shall,
in such case, appoint presiding officers to take the poll at each
section at which he does not himself preside.
(2) If a polling place
is divided into sections there shall be fixed over each such section, a notice
indicating the letters of the alphabet for the section of such polling
place at which each elector, according to the initial letter of his surname,
is to vote; and no elector shall be permitted to vote in any
section thereof save that which is so denoted by the initial letter of
his surname.
(3) All the provisions
of this Act relating to presiding officers shall apply to presiding officers
at each section of a polling place.