Research Report 3 - Analysis of Declaration Voting
Updated: 7 February 2011
Analysis of Declaration Voting
Author: Gerry Newman
Date: June 2004
Research Report 3 – Analysis of Declaration Voting [PDF 272KB]
Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Background
Legislative Provisions
Trends in declaration voting
Reasons for Increase in Declaration Votes
Impact on the Electoral System
Some Reform Options
Summary
Appendix 1: Chronology of Commonwealth Legislative Provisions for Declaration Voting
Appendix 2: Extracts from Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
- Part XV-Postal voting
- Part XVA-Pre-poll voting
- Schedule 2-Grounds of application for postal or pre-poll vote
- Schedule 3-Rules for the conduct of a preliminary scrutiny of declaration votes
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