What’s involved?
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Who do you want to be your PM? And who do you want to represent your local community and your state? Before you make your choice, you need to enrol, and do it right!
Enrolment and voting age:
If you’re 18 and an Australian citizen, you must enrol and vote.
If you are 17 and an Australian citizen, you can enrol, but won’t be able to vote until you're 18.
Steps to enrol or update your details
* Firstly you need to pick up an enrolment form. You can grab one of these from either your local Post Office, Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) Office, State/Territory Electoral Office, or download a form from the Australian Electoral Commission website
* Complete the form. Make sure you sign it and get someone to witness it! Remember, all signatures must be hand-written!
* Return the completed form. You can do this by faxing or mailing it to you local divisional office of the AEC. If you picked up a form from the Post Office, reply paid envelopes are provided. Also, you can scan and email the form to info@aec.gov.au.
* When your form has been received and processed, the AEC will send you a confirmation and tell you which electorate you’re in! Keep this info, as it will come in handy on the day!
After you enrol
* Make sure to keep your details up to date. If you move and stay there for over a month, you need to change your enrolment details.
* Know what electorate you’re in (that way it’ll be easy to find out where you need to go to vote on election day)
* Make sure you VOTE and make it count!
Things to be aware of:
* You have until 8:00pm on the day the writ for the election is issued to enrol to vote. A writ is a document that contains dates for the close of nominations, and polling day.It is usually issued the day the election is called.
* From the time of the writ you have three days to update your enrolment details.
* You must have current Proof of Identity (driver’s license, proof of age card), in order to enrol or update enrolment details.
* If you don’t have proof of identity, you must have your enrolment form signed by two people who are already enrolled, have known you for more than a month, and are not related to you!
* make sure your details and your proof of identity cards are up to date when you enrol or update your enrolement details.
For more info
Go see the
Australian Electoral Commission website.
Why should people do this?
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