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ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1993
Detail Stage
Clause 22, as amended
Debate resumed from 19 April 1994.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (4.58), by leave: Madam Speaker, I move together the Government amendments Nos 34 and 35, which read as follows:
34. Page 49, lines 24 to 29, proposed new subsection 128(1), omit the subsection, substitute the following subsection:
"(1) An elector shall record his or her vote on a ballot paper by marking the ballot paper in accordance with subsection (2).".
35. Page 49, line 30, proposed new subsection 128(2), omit "Where paragraph (1)(b) applies, the", substitute "The".
These amendments arise as a consequence of the removal of the party ticket voting scheme.
MR HUMPHRIES (4.59): Madam Speaker, I have no objection to the removal of those provisions dealing with the party ticket voting scheme, of course; but there are some aspects of proposed new section 128 which I think deserve to be commented upon. This proposed new section, as amended, indicates that there is, by law, a certain method which voters need to employ in casting a vote. It says:
An elector shall -
it is mandatory -
record his or her vote on a ballot paper ... by marking the ballot paper in accordance with subsection (2).
Subsection (2) says:
... the elector -
(a) shall place consecutive whole numbers starting at "1" in the number of candidate squares equal to the number of candidates to be elected so as to indicate preferences ...
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