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Referendums Act 1997
sec.32BPrescribed procedures for electronically assisted voting
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### sec.32B Prescribed procedures for electronically assisted voting
The commission may make procedures about how an elector may make an electronically assisted vote for a referendum.
The procedures must provide for the following—
the registration of electors who may make an electronically assisted vote for a referendum under section 32A ;
the authentication of each electronically assisted vote;
the recording of each elector who uses electronically assisted voting;
ensuring the secrecy of each electronically assisted vote;
the secure transmission of each electronically assisted vote to the electoral commissioner, and secure storage of each electronically assisted vote by the commissioner, until printing;
the printing, for scrutiny and counting, of a ballot paper for each electronically assisted vote;
the secure delivery of each printed ballot paper to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or to the commission.
The procedures—
do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and
must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and
must be published on the commission’s website.
s 32B ins 2015 No. 35 s 24
(sec.32B-ssec.1) The commission may make procedures about how an elector may make an electronically assisted vote for a referendum.
(sec.32B-ssec.2) The procedures must provide for the following— the registration of electors who may make an electronically assisted vote for a referendum under section 32A ; the authentication of each electronically assisted vote; the recording of each elector who uses electronically assisted voting; ensuring the secrecy of each electronically assisted vote; the secure transmission of each electronically assisted vote to the electoral commissioner, and secure storage of each electronically assisted vote by the commissioner, until printing; the printing, for scrutiny and counting, of a ballot paper for each electronically assisted vote; the secure delivery of each printed ballot paper to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or to the commission.
(sec.32B-ssec.3) The procedures— do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and must be published on the commission’s website.
- (a) the registration of electors who may make an electronically assisted vote for a referendum under section 32A ;
- (b) the authentication of each electronically assisted vote;
- (c) the recording of each elector who uses electronically assisted voting;
- (d) ensuring the secrecy of each electronically assisted vote;
- (e) the secure transmission of each electronically assisted vote to the electoral commissioner, and secure storage of each electronically assisted vote by the commissioner, until printing;
- (f) the printing, for scrutiny and counting, of a ballot paper for each electronically assisted vote;
- (g) the secure delivery of each printed ballot paper to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or to the commission.
- (a) do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and
- (b) must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and
- (c) must be published on the commission’s website.