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Torres Strait Regional Authority Election Rules 2017
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144 Cards in polling booth
(1) A person must not, except for rule 73, display or leave in a polling booth a card or paper having on it a direction or instruction as to how a voter should vote or as to the method of voting.
(2) This rule does not apply to an official instruction displayed by proper authority at a polling booth.
Note A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the exception in subrule (2) (see subsection 13.3 (3) of the Criminal Code).