Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) To enable persons
to vote at a mobile voting place, the mobile voting officers for the mobile
voting place must attend the mobile voting place during mobile voting times
for the mobile voting place with the amount of mobile ballot boxes decided for
the mobile voting place under section 90D(3)(a).
(2) The failure of a
mobile voting officer to attend a mobile voting place under subsection (1)
does not affect an election, or the result of an election, if the officer has
a reasonable excuse for failing to attend.
(3) A person must not
be near a mobile ballot box at a mobile voting place during the polling unless
the person is —
(a) the
Electoral Commissioner; or
(b) a
returning officer; or
(c) the
presiding officer or an assistant presiding officer; or
(d) a
mobile voting officer; or
(e) a
scrutineer appointed for the mobile voting place and allowed at the mobile
voting place under subsection (4) or (5); or
(f) an
election campaign worker accompanying a mobile ballot box to distribute
registered how-to-vote cards to persons casting their votes at the mobile
voting place; or
(g) a
police officer on duty at the mobile voting place; or
(h) a
person who is voting or about to vote; or
(i)
a nominated person under section 98F(2) as applied under
section 99B(2) to assist a person who is voting or about to vote; or
(j) if
the election is held on the same day as a referendum — a scrutineer for
the mobile voting place appointed under an enactment for the purposes of the
referendum.
(4) At a mobile voting
place for a single member election, only 1 scrutineer at a time is allowed for
each candidate.
(5) At a mobile voting
place for a Council election where the relevant number is more than one
—
(a) only
1 scrutineer at a time is allowed for each group; and
(b) only
1 scrutineer at a time is allowed for each candidate who is not included in a
group.
[Section 99 inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 80.]