Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 113

113 Help to enable electors to vote at pre-poll voting offices

(1) Subject to subsection (2) , if an elector satisfies an issuing officer that the elector is unable to vote without help, the elector may be accompanied in the pre-poll voting office by another person chosen by the elector.

(2) The other person may help the elector in any of the following ways—

(a) acting as an interpreter;

(b) explaining the ballot paper and the requirements of section 122 relating to its marking;

(c) marking, or helping the elector to mark, the ballot paper in the way the elector wishes;

(d) folding the ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box.

(3) If an elector is unable to enter a pre-poll voting office because of illness, disability or advanced pregnancy, but is able to come to a place (the
"voting place" ) close to the pre-poll voting office, then, subject to subsection (4) —

(a) the issuing officer may perform the issuing officer’s functions; and

(b) the voter may vote;

at the voting place as if it were the pre-poll voting office.

(4) The issuing officer must—

(a) before taking any action under subsection (3) , inform any scrutineers present of the proposed action; and

(b) allow only 1 scrutineer for each candidate to be present at the voting place; and

(c) ensure that, after the ballot paper is marked, it is—

(i) folded to conceal the vote; and

(ii) put into an envelope and sealed; and

(d) open the envelope inside the pre-poll voting office in the presence of any scrutineers and put the folded ballot paper in a ballot box.