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Local Government Electoral Act 2011
sec.78Help for electors voting
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### sec.78 Help for electors voting
If an elector satisfies an issuing officer that the elector can not vote without help, the elector may be accompanied into an unoccupied voting compartment in a polling booth, be assisted in casting an electronically assisted vote or be otherwise helped, by someone chosen by the elector.
The person may help the elector in any of the following ways—
if asked by the elector—stating the names of candidates;
acting as interpreter;
explaining the following—
the ballot paper and the requirements of subdivision 5 about its marking;
for electronically assisted voting—any aspect of the procedure for casting an electronically assisted vote;
marking or helping to mark the ballot paper, or helping to cast the electronically assisted vote, in the way the elector wishes;
folding the ballot paper and putting it into a ballot box or a declaration envelope;
sealing a declaration envelope or putting it into a ballot box.
Subsections (1) and (2) apply to all types of voting.
This section applies despite section 70 (7) (a) and (b) .
s 78 amd 2014 No. 44 s 59
(sec.78-ssec.1) If an elector satisfies an issuing officer that the elector can not vote without help, the elector may be accompanied into an unoccupied voting compartment in a polling booth, be assisted in casting an electronically assisted vote or be otherwise helped, by someone chosen by the elector.
(sec.78-ssec.2) The person may help the elector in any of the following ways— if asked by the elector—stating the names of candidates; acting as interpreter; explaining the following— the ballot paper and the requirements of subdivision 5 about its marking; for electronically assisted voting—any aspect of the procedure for casting an electronically assisted vote; marking or helping to mark the ballot paper, or helping to cast the electronically assisted vote, in the way the elector wishes; folding the ballot paper and putting it into a ballot box or a declaration envelope; sealing a declaration envelope or putting it into a ballot box.
(sec.78-ssec.3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply to all types of voting.
(sec.78-ssec.4) This section applies despite section 70 (7) (a) and (b) .
- (a) if asked by the elector—stating the names of candidates;
- (b) acting as interpreter;
- (c) explaining the following— (i) the ballot paper and the requirements of subdivision 5 about its marking; (ii) for electronically assisted voting—any aspect of the procedure for casting an electronically assisted vote;
- (i) the ballot paper and the requirements of subdivision 5 about its marking;
- (ii) for electronically assisted voting—any aspect of the procedure for casting an electronically assisted vote;
- (d) marking or helping to mark the ballot paper, or helping to cast the electronically assisted vote, in the way the elector wishes;
- (e) folding the ballot paper and putting it into a ballot box or a declaration envelope;
- (f) sealing a declaration envelope or putting it into a ballot box.
- (i) the ballot paper and the requirements of subdivision 5 about its marking;
- (ii) for electronically assisted voting—any aspect of the procedure for casting an electronically assisted vote;