Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters
Inquiry into the integrity of the electoral roll
The Committee tabled its report User friendly, not abuser friendly:
Report of the inquiry into the integrity of the electoral roll in
both houses of Parliament on 18 June 2001. A copy of the full report is
available in PDF format (743KB) or from the Committee
Secretariat.
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List of submissions
List of public hearings
Transcripts
of public hearings
Media releases
Government response (PDF format
37KB)
Contents of report: User friendly, not abuser friendly: Inquiry
into the integrity of the electoral roll
FRONT SECTION (PDF format 40KB) (This
document contains the sections of the report from the Foreword to the
List of recommendations)
- Foreword
- Membership of the Committee
- Terms of reference
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Recommendations (PDF format
13KB)
CHAPTER ONE - Introduction (PDF format
40KB)
- Background
- Related inquiries and their impact on the committee's work
- Shepherson Inquiry
- The LCARC inquiry
- Earlier JSCEM inquiries
- Inquiry into the integrity of the electoral roll
- Structure of the report
CHAPTER TWO - Managing the roll (PDF format
116KB)
- Fraudulent enrolment
- Defining enrolment fraud
- Extent of enrolment fraud
- Mechanisms for managing the roll
- Current identification and verification procedures
- The Roll Management System
- Continuous Roll Updating
- Removing deceased electors
- Return to sender mail
- Full habitation review
- Roll audits of selected Divisions
- Section 85 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
- Identity checks at enrolment
- Early close of rolls
- Previous JSCEM federal election inquiry recommendations
- Submissions to the current inquiry
- Access to the electoral roll
CHAPTER THREE - Enrolment fraud management
(PDF format 61KB)
- AEC fraud control plan
- Issues relating to AEC staff
- Training of AEC staff
- Staff security checks
- Staff - management communications
- Enrolment fraud investigation
- AEC investigation process
- Relationship between AEC and AFP
- AFP investigative process
- Tied funding
- Penalties for enrolment offences
- Offences
- Transfer of offences to the criminal code
- Disqualification from parliament
- Increasing penalties for the remaining offences
- External scrutiny of fraud control activities
- ANAO performance audit on the AEC management of the electoral roll
- Scrutiny by the committee
CHAPTER FOUR - Regulating political parties
(PDF format 57KB)
- Regulation of parties-current practice
- Regulation of parties-a need for tighter control?
- Parties as private bodies
- Political parties in other liberal democracies
- Changes in Australian society
- The receipt of public money
- Changes in the law
- Regulation of parties-how might it be strengthened?
- Tightening existing arrangements
- The AEC and party preselections
- External influence upon parties
MINORITY REPORT - Mr Laurie Ferguson
MP, Senator the Hon John Faulkner, and Mr Robert McClelland MP (ALP) (PDF
format 453KB)
MINORITY REPORT - Senator Andrew
Bartlett and Senator Andrew Murray (Australian Democrats (PDF format 7KB)
APPENDIX A - List of submissions (PDF
format 17KB)
APPENDIX B - List of exhibits (PDF format
13KB)
APPENDIX C - List of hearings and witnesses
(PDF format 14KB)