Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00399:clause:2_19
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00399
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 19
Character Range: 19561–21352

19  Enabling registered electronically assisted voter to vote
 (1) The Electoral Commissioner must determine, in writing, procedures for enabling a registered electronically assisted voter to vote by an electronically assisted vote.
Example 1: The procedures may require a call centre operator to ensure that the voter:
(a) receives the same information (in the same order), and has the same voting options, as would appear in the ballot paper for the election that the voter would be given if the voter were voting under Part XVI of the Act; and
(b) is able to indicate the voter's vote in a way that, if the voter were marking a ballot paper, would satisfy the requirements of section 239 or 240 of the Act.
Example 2: The procedures may permit the voter's ballot papers to be checked to ensure that they have been marked in accordance with the voter's instructions (if any).
 (2) A call centre operator who is satisfied that a registered electronically assisted voter is entitled to vote by an electronically assisted vote must assist the voter in accordance with the procedures determined under subsection (1).
 (3) The voter may tell the call centre operator how the voter wants the ballot papers to be marked.
 (4) If the voter tells the call centre operator how the voter wants the ballot papers to be marked, the call centre operator must:
 (a) initial the voter's ballot papers on the top front of each ballot paper; and
 (b) mark the voter's ballot papers in accordance with the voter's instructions; and
 (c) read the voter's voting preferences back to the voter; and
 (d) put the voter's ballot papers in an envelope marked with the name of the voter's Division; and
 (e) place the envelope in a ballot‑box used at the authorised call centre for electronically assisted voting.