Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00022:clause:2_202ab
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00022
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 202AB
Character Range: 28750–31401

202AB  Regulations may provide for voting by an electronically assisted voting method

 (1) The regulations may provide for sight‑impaired people to vote by an electronically assisted voting method at the first general election, and the first Senate election, held after the commencement of this section.

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

 (3) The electronically assisted 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 electronically assisted 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 more than once at an election.