Second Reading Speeches

Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Offences and Preventing Multiple Voting) Bill 2021

Type
Government
Portfolio
Finance
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Assent
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: enable the Electoral Commissioner to declare an elector to be a ‘designated elector’ on the basis of a reasonable suspicion that the elector has voted more than once in an election; provide for decisions regarding declarations of designated electors to be subject to review by the Electoral Commissioner or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and provide examples of the types of conduct and behaviours that may constitute the offence of interference with political liberty, and increase the penalty for this offence.

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