Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00022:clause:2_202ah:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00022
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 202AH (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 34690–37362

202AH  Regulations may provide for remote electronic voting by defence personnel serving outside Australia

 (1) The regulations may provide for defence members and defence civilians who:
 (a) are registered as remote electronic voters (see section 202AI); and
 (b) are serving outside Australia at the time of the first general election, and the first Senate election, held after the commencement of this section;
to vote by a remote electronic voting method at those elections.

 (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may:
 (a) determine, or provide for the determination of, the following:
 (i) the remote electronic voting method;
 (ii) a method for verifying the identity of persons using the remote electronic voting method;
 (iii) matters relating to the voting using the remote electronic voting method, including what has to be done after a person has used the method, and matters of privacy and secrecy;
 (iv) the number of places where the remote electronic voting method is to be available, where those places are, and the days and hours when the method is to be available; and
 (b) allow the remote electronic voting method to be used in a particular period before polling day, as well as on polling day; and
 (c) provide for any other matters related to the integrity of the use of the remote electronic voting method.

 (3) The remote electronic voting method must be such that a person using the method:
 (a) for the Senate election referred to in subsection (1):
 (i) receives the same information (in the same order), and has the same voting options, as would appear in the ballot‑paper for the Senate election that the person would be given if he or she were instead voting under Part XVI; and
 (ii) is able to indicate his or her vote in a way that, if he or she were instead marking a ballot‑paper, would satisfy the requirements of section 239; and
 (b) for the general election referred to in subsection (1):
 (i) receives the same information (in the same order), and has the same voting options, as would appear in the ballot‑paper for the general election that the person would be given if he or she were instead voting under Part XVI; and
 (ii) is able to indicate his or her vote in a way that, if he or she were instead marking a ballot‑paper, would satisfy the requirements of section 240.

 (4) The regulations may provide for offences in relation to the remote electronic voting method, and may prescribe penalties for those offences. A prescribed penalty must not exceed 50 penalty units.

 (5) Nothing in this Division or in regulations made for the purposes of this Division authorises any person to vote