Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 111

111 Presiding officer helping an elector with a disability

If—

(a) a presiding officer at an election agrees to help an elector who is blind, or otherwise unable to vote without help, by marking the elector’s ballot paper for the elector; and

(b) the presiding officer wilfully fails to mark the ballot paper—

(i) in the way requested by the elector; and

(ii) in the sight of anyone else lawfully present;

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—3 years imprisonment.