Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The presiding officer or a polling official must put to each person attending before the officer or official, and claiming to vote in an election or elections (as the case requires), questions in order to ascertain:
(a) the person's full name; and
(b) the person's place of living; and
(c) whether the person has voted before in the election or elections (as the case requires).
(2) In addition to the questions put under subsection (1), the officer or official must ask each person claiming to vote as an absent voter in an election to identify the Division for which the person is enrolled.
(4) If the answers a person (the claimant ) claiming to vote gives to the questions under subsection (1) do not satisfy the officer or official that the claimant is a particular person on the certified list of voters or an approved list of voters for the relevant Division, the officer or official may ask the claimant one or more other questions about matters shown on the list for the particular person, to establish whether the claimant is that particular person.
(5) A person's claim to vote must (subject to section 235) be rejected if:
(a) questions are put to the person under subsection (1) and the person:
(i) refuses to answer fully any of the questions; or
(ii) answers a question so as to indicate that the person has voted before in the relevant election or elections (as the case requires); and
(b) the presiding officer is satisfied that subparagraph (a)(i) or (ii) applies in relation to the person.
Note: Section 235 deals with provisional votes.