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Special enrolment options

Updated: 3 May 2016

There are options for people with special needs or with specific circumstances that may affect their enrolment.

Silent electors
General postal voters
People with no fixed address (homeless, seasonal workers or travellers around Australia with no address to return to)
Long-term travellers within Australia (who will return to their permanent enrolled address)
Overseas residents or going overseas
People physically incapable of signing
Prisoners
Norfolk Island electors
Workers in Antarctica

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