South Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 84B

84B—Applying provisions of Act to elector using electronic assisted voting

        (1)         The prescribed electronically assisted voting method must be such that an elector using the method in relation to an election—

            (a)         receives the same information (in the same order), and has the same voting options, as would appear in the ballot paper for the election that the elector would be given if the elector were voting at a polling booth under this Part; and

            (b)         is able to indicate a vote in a way that, if the elector were marking a ballot paper, would not be an informal ballot paper.

        (2)         Subject to this Division, if an elector votes using the electronically assisted voting method (an "electronically assisted vote )—

            (a)         this Act applies (subject to any modifications prescribed under section 84A(2)(f)) in relation to an electronically assisted vote as if it were a declaration vote; and

            (b)         the record of the electronically assisted vote produced in accordance with the regulations is to be taken to be a ballot paper for the purposes of this Act; and

            (c)         the requirements of this Act in relation to the elector's right to receive a ballot paper are to be taken to have been satisfied.