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Elections Australia.

Elections Australia is not an official electoral source. Everything may be subject to change at any time. Elections Australia does not guarantee, and accepts no legal liability, for the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material on this or any linked sites.

A merger of all of Australia’s Electoral Commissions into a new single election management body.

A single electoral framework, single electoral integrity, single electoral management, single electoral participation and single electoral operations model.

Legislated by, funded by and reportable to all Australian parliaments and governments. Likely an inter-jurisdictional body with firm clarity of arrangements, responsibility, accountability and governance.

Potential launch date – Early 2029 (before or after the March 2029, WA State Election).

What this is. The big picture and small details of a structural underpinning for Australian elections. Single framework + modular delivery. A single pathway for every election stakeholder. A wider and broader institutional memory for the Australian electoral workforce and organisation. A role model for electoral management bodies around the world.

Updated: 2026-07-04

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Elections Australia

Draft organisational structure / work inspired by https://aceproject.org/

Electoral Framework

Electoral Integrity

Electoral Management

• Electoral Management
• Cost of Elections

Electoral Participation

• Candidates, Parties and Groups
• Accessibility
• Media
• Education

Electoral Operations

• Voter Enrolment
• Voting Operations
• Results
• Elections and Technology
• Elections and Security

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EA Framework

Redistributions

Any volume of electors requiring movement of electorates shall not be a consideration in any electorate boundary change.

Any existing (or awaiting assent) electorate boundary may be considered as a secondary factor but should not override any considered electorate boundary change.

Framework for Voting Places

A Voting Places framework is created, allowing a level of consistency of services and showing what type and number of 10-Day, 5-Day, 1-Day and Mobile Voting Places will be offered in every area.

Every Voting Place is considered an individual entity and is “activated” upon an electoral event falling within its’ boundaries. 10-Day, 5-Day and 1-Day Voting Places are physical addresses and Mobile Voting Places

Start with a blank map of the Australian landmass and onto it map the Australian Statistical Geography Standard’s [ABS] Urban Structure – Significant Urban Areas, Urban Centre and Localities and Sections of State. This allows for a classification of geographies and populations. The proposed release / update for the Urban Structure classification is October 2027.

There are currently around 1900 “Significant Urban Areas” and there are used as the structure of and coding for 10-Day, 5-Day and 1-Day Voting Places.

Mobile Voting Places are logistical areas of Very Remote, Remote and Outer Regional Australia. Map and breakdown by area outside of “Significant Urban Area”, then “Urban Centres and Localities”, then “Section of State Range”.

Visual – https://maps.abs.gov.au/

For further background, overlay historic voting place attendance patterns (combined in some places) and electorate boundaries to act as a cross-check to proposed services.

We end up with an all Voting Places framework map, with each Voting Place or Mobile Voting Place area noting its’ respective home Federal, State/ Territory and Local Government electorates.

With post event feedback from Voting Places, the service determination offered should be reviewed following every electoral event.

Framework for Operations Groups

Sitting between a completely centralised operation and individual electorates, an “Operations Group” is a persistent coordination structure and enactment body to support collations of Voting Places and all other physical voting activities that take place for any electoral event (including overseas) within the respective Groups’ assigned area of geographic responsibility.

A Group ensures it has the necessary physical requirements to undertake required duties across its’ designated electorates such as offices, warehouses, materials and people.

Group activities include managing Voting Places, materials coordination, Further and All Preference Counts, Absent Vote and Provisional Vote Exchange and some EA Participation activities.

Operations Groups are structured through EA Framework but enacted through EA Operations.

Groups maintain broad employment categories (from permanent to single shift), across a distributed and in-person workforce. The staffing model (below) expands further and contains an allowance for permanent “on call” staffing in every Group.

Groups Delineation Model

This is an expansion of the Voting Places model outlined above.

As Groups are logistical and operational bodies, a good starting point is to overlay the Australian Statistical Geography Standard’s [ABS] Remoteness Structure over the earlier Voting Places map. “Remoteness Areas divide Australia and the states and territories into 5 classes of remoteness on the basis of their relative access to services.” – Major Cities, Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote and Very Remote. The proposed update release for the Remoteness Structure classification is March 2028.

Finally, you make logical and realisable sets of remoteness area connected electorates. This may be broadly in line with SA4’s, SA3’s, Destination Zones, the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia or other.

Each agreed set of remoteness area connected electorates become a Group. As all elections are overseen by a single body, a Group may consistent of one or more remoteness areas and may exist across state / territory borders (with necessary reporting functions remaining).

When an election is called, the Operations Group takes on responsibility for its’ relevant electorate/s. Theoretical Group examples:

EA Operations – Very Remote and Remote Group/s*

Example. Group covers O’Connor (WA), Durack (WA), Lingiari (NT), Grey (SA), Kennedy (QLD), Leichhardt (QLD), Parkes (NSW)(possible) and overlapping state / territory and local electorates (as decided).

EA Operations – Remote and Outer Regional Group/s*

EA Operations – Outer Regional and Inner Regional Group/s*

EA Operations – Inner Regional Group/s

EA Operations – Major Cities Group/s

Example. Inner South West (Sydney) Group. Group covers Watson (NSW), Banks (NSW), Barton (NSW) and overlapping state / territory and local electorates (as decided).

The Groups structure is updated following any electorate boundary change and following any update of the ABS’s Australian Statistical Geography Standard.

*The second half of these groupings are enclaves and/or exclaves of their surrounding remoteness areas.

An outcome may look like the 206 Area Management Boundaries of the Census Field Area Map 2026 mapped against the ABS Remoteness Structure and adjusted as above. Or start here.

Electoral (Voting) Systems

EA should develop a “menu” of models of electoral (voting) systems from which jurisdictions can select.

All Preference Voting

Elections that use full preference voting get a clearer, more explicit title. [Consider using “Instant-runoff voting” – Wikipedia.]

“Rank every candidate from most preferred “1” to least preferred “X”. You must use the numbers 1, Y with no repetitions or omissions.”

[X is the total number of candidates for the electorate. Y is each comma separated, individual number from 2 to the total number of candidates for the electorate.]

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EA should be at the forefront of world electoral management bodies by exploring and working on new, alternative and/or innovative matters, eg. technology, voting systems.

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EA Integrity

Largely exists. Collate. Fresh draft for the strongest set of agreed outcomes, eg. rigour, transparency, etc.

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EA Management

Elections Australia has its’ foundation as a distributed organisation.

Most EA Framework, Integrity, Management and Participation work can be undertaken by a more permanent / as required, distributed workforce, which does not require that a staff member be permanently tied to any specific location. Whenever necessary / required / determined, in-person in person.

This is an outstanding opportunity for the best people and the best electoral people from around the country to build the most rigorous, transparent, innovative and best electoral system in the world. Employer of choice. Above and beyond.

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Accessibility – Better for some, can be better for all.

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Sustainability – Built in to a very high degree.

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No Newspaper Requirement – Nothing legislatively or legally required to be transmitted via newspapers.

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Sundays – Outside of exceptional circumstances and any remaining return of voting materials, there should be no EA Operations work on any Sunday. Absent / provisional vote exchange and any other Sunday vote processing can be deferred for one day.

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Feedback – From any staff member is continuously sought on any aspect of anything about elections.

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Best in class open source software.

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Writs. EA shall determine the required timing for all aspects of the writ including times for list of voters close, nominations and voting. This is to ensure that there are realistic, realisable and achievable allocations for all overarching activity periods. eg. that there is sufficient time from the close of nominations through to voting paper printing through to the start of voting.

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EA Participation

From the people who do the work and make the decisions, EA Participation overhauls what people expect from electoral messaging. [hello… I speak v. / pop up v. / teach how.]

elections.gov.au

The single website for every election and every election stakeholder. Main tabs – very top of website:

Voters

Candidates, Parties and Groups

Elections and Electorates

Elections Australia

MyGov

Elections Australia (EA) maintains a presence through MyGov, allowing a voter to access and update a level of personalised information such as enrolment, electorate, voting and election employment information. Electors get (limited) compulsory updates in the lead up to eligible electoral events.

The EA Style Guide

Greyscale is the style guide for Elections Australia and Australian elections.

• Organisational colour – Greyscale. Smart and clean.
• Primary staff vest colour – Undyed. Branded.
• Preferred Voting Place staff clothing colour – Greyscale. Secondary – neutral tones.
• Typography and Design – Clean, clear, modern, beautiful. Consistent across most / all public facing messaging, including:
• Voting Papers – EA legislated to determine the form of the voting paper. A complete refresh with a modern standardised presentation. Consistent for every voting system. Uncoloured 100% post-consumer recycled paper stock. Clear, highly legible, eye pleasing typography. Possibly some limited branding elements to differentiate between electorates. Standardised (by voting system), explicit, direct instructions to complete voting paper. See ABS Forms Design Standards.
• External Promotion of Voting – Have strict, standard, compulsory ways for any non-EA representation of a voting paper or voting process.
• Results – How results are presented. More below.

• Voting Place
• Voting Paper
• Voting Box
• Voting Place Manager
• Assistant Voting Place Manager
• Voting Assistant
• Extended Voting Assistant
• Election Observer
• Election Manager
• Election Results
• All Preference Voting
  • Formality and First Preference Count
  • Fresh Formality and First Preference Count
  • Further Preference Count
  • All Preference Count

Elections Australia Live!

Run by EA Participation (alongside a suite of other voter facing initiatives), EA Live is an online, livestream broadcast of results across the relevant results period of an election. It runs alongside any counting of voting papers.

EA Live reports counted numbers. There are no projections, political analysis or political commentary. It’s very intentionally not like everything else.

EA Live is politically and issue neutral but smart, accessible and passionate with a little personality. It’s must watch and/or a companion to others.

Interspersed with results is information about voting and electoral processes. Understanding of voting systems and elections are embedded into practical real time examples.

eg. a low first preference candidate from a random electorate is displayed with an explanation of how those votes then get distributed.

eg. “An intentionally informal vote isn’t a protest; it’s making sure you’re ignored.”

“Your best protest is a formal vote.”

Give the explicit statement and acknowledgement that if you intentionally vote informal, your vote is ignored and since someone is going to be elected anyway, why not take that last step and vote formally. No politician or candidate ever sees your voting paper and the voting official looking at your voting paper doesn’t care about your written or unwritten protest, they care about your numbering. Voting is a strictly regulated activity and if you want to protest or rage against the world, an incorrectly filled out voting paper is not the right way or place. Though your most preferred candidate may or may not get elected, next election and every election after, vote formally and if you’re not sure how, ask.

EA Live runs over the 3 main results periods – Both Formality and First Preference Counts, Further Preference Counts and All Preference Counts. EA Live may also run in the lead up to electoral events.

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EA Operations

Enrolment and List of Voters

EA manages a single List of Voters (roll). Compulsory, automatic enrolment. All enrolment processing and updates to be done online.

Voting

Vote in Person Legislation

To simplify legislation and reduce any eligibility restrictions and/or impediments, early voting and election day come together into a single legislated area of voting in-person. EA will determine in-person voting places, dates and times. Introducing…

10-Day, 5-Day and 1-Day Voting Places

With a balance between geographic spread, venue availability and expected votes taken, there is a single framework for in-person voting – 3 variants of Voting Places.

Voting Places will be available to voters for 10 days, 5 days or 1 day; no Sundays or public holidays. Each variant of Voting Place has a different mix of votes taken and suggested hours are based on a maximum daily employment span of 10 hours – excluding the final voting day. Federal election example used; other elections follow similarly.

Venue Type	Votes Taken	Opening Hours
10-Day Voting Places	– 1 or more Local Electorate Votes -Intrastate Electorate Votes -Interstate Electorate Votes — includes Absent Votes Provisional Votes	Wednesday – 9:30am to 5:30pm Thursday – 9:30am to 6:30pm Friday – 9:30am to 6:30pm Saturday – 9:30am to 4:30pm Monday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Tuesday – 8:30am to 5:30pm* Wednesday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Thursday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Friday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Saturday – 8:30am to 5:30pm**
5-Day Voting Places	– 1 or more Local Electorate Votes – Intrastate Electorate Votes — includes Absent Votes Provisional Votes	Tuesday – 9:30am to 5:30pm* Wednesday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Thursday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Friday – 8:30am to 5:30pm Saturday – 8:30am to 5:30pm**
1-Day Voting Places	– 1 or more Local Electorate Votes — includes Provisional Votes	Saturday – 8:30am to 5:30pm**

*This is the same day.

**This is the same day.

Mobile Voting Places

Mobile Voting is offered in two scenarios:

• For groups of persons in a dwelling establishment that are unable to attend a 10-Day, 5-Day or 1-Day Voting Place and require additional assistance to vote. This will mostly be select medical and aged care accommodation. Begin by using existing data and 2026 Census data to reach out to all relevant accommodation services. Develop and offer an active enrolment update program at suitable establishments.
• In Very Remote, Remote and Outer Regional areas. As further outlined below.

Mobile voting may take place at any permitted location/s, date/s and time/s that EA deem necessary for such a service to be operated.

Mobile Voting should also be enabled as a contingency voting pathway, eg. a natural disaster closes one of more Voting Places, earlier medical situation at an aged care facility or an outer regional community unable to vote at an earlier time.

Voting Places

Following on from the above and EA Framework for Voting Places, enact these actual physical spaces and places.

Begin with 10-Day and 5-Day Voting Places, intended to be persistently available as “on-call” venues with the highest accessibility, eg. local council halls.

For mobile voting, as needed, visit select locations more than once during the voting period.

Electronic Device Mark-Off

All Voting Places use electronic devices (with contingencies) to record voter names against the List of Voters.

Included is a system (eg. check box against a voter’s details) to allow EA to reach out to a voter, so their enrolment can be updated – a helpful service provided by the Voting Assistant.

Absent Votes, Provisional Votes and Changes to Enrolment

With all enrolment updates done online, discontinue any process that requires a Voting Assistant to manually process a voter’s identification for any new or updated enrolments.

There should be a consistent process whereby if an in-person voter is not or not correctly on the local or absent list of voters, there is an active, online EA-led process to enrol or update their enrolment details. Specifically:

• Any change of enrolment for a local or absent voter – A check box is ticked against the voter’s mark off and this internally triggers the EA to electronically contact the voter to update their enrolment details.
• Any change of enrolment for a provisional voter – The voter’s name, date of birth, residential address and at least one frequently checked contact method are entered into the Extended Voting Assistant’s computer. This internally triggers the EA to electronically contact the voter to update their enrolment details.

In line with the above, overhaul and simplify the way absent votes and provisional votes are taken, such as printed or pre-printed voting certificates, simpler absent envelopes e.g. only Voting Place ID + Voter Receipt ID, vote taking process improvements that can be collapsible or expandable into 2-3 separate sections on demand.

Potentially, undertake all initial absent vote and provisional vote processing and counting at the Operations Group location of where the vote was taken. These votes then return to their “home” Operations Group for secondary processing and counting.

At each Voting Place, at the end of each day of voting, absent and provisional vote envelopes should be reconciled to their mark-off, then collated (state / territory, electorate, voter last name), repacked and sealed in a combined Voting Envelope “Container” with all previous days’ envelopes. The legislation should be clear that completed envelopes (containing votes) are placed into Voting Envelope “Containers” (not “Boxes”) to allow for the container/s to be opened and reconciled on a daily basis.

At Voting Places where an agreed (low) percentage of absent and provisional votes are expected to be taken, this work area should come under the responsibility of the Assistant Voting Place Manager.

Pre-count Voting Paper Stock

To save time and reduce workload pressure at Voting Places, check count individual voting papers stock (to bundles of 100) before they get sent out to Voting Places.

Discontinue Manual Administration for Voter Flow

With real time recording of votes being issued, discontinue any manual administration related to the tracking and/or recording of voter flow, voters or vote counts during the operation of the voting place. Any specific notes on this topic should be recorded by the Voting Place Manager on their computer and able to be centrally viewed in real time, with any issues raised and resolved.

Voting Place Managers should make commentary as to the suitability of their venue for 10-Day, 5-Day or 1-Day operation and this should feedback into future planning.

Outside the Voting Place and Non-EA Promotion of Voting

There is a lot of activity currently going on in this space, so this will be returned to further at a later time.

The EA Style Guide covers any non-EA representation of a voting paper or voting process, including that strict systems are in place so no canvasser of a voter is able to “game” or workaround the formality system in any way.

EA to offer an online “postmaster” style of centralised candidate / party information. This may be used outside the voting place.

Vote by Post

EA takes sole management of and authority for postal voting. Through MyGov, move to a single system of online processing for Continuing Postal Voters and single election postal voters.

Continuing Postal Voters must renew their application each year (by reading the application criteria and agreeing to them) to ensure they remain eligible for and wish to continue their subscription to the service. There should be an opt-out process should the service no longer be required.

The date for the close of postal vote applications should consider the time requirements for postal votes to reach applicants.

The date for the close of return of postal votes should consider the time requirements for postal votes to reach EA.

10-Day Voting Places could become publicised drop off points for Postal Votes. Including receipt through Voting Place Manager’s computer.

Monitor the connection between the numbers of postal vote applications, postal votes being sent out and postal votes being returned to see if the difference in these amounts can be actively reduced.

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Counting

There are multiple voting systems used in Australia and all will be included. The structure and explanation of the count is intentionally very explicit. One widespread and transferable example is shown.

Counting for a Single Member, All Preference Voting election

Count Name	Count Purpose	Count Location and Timing
Formality and First Preference Count	To determine the formality or informality of each voting paper and the counting of all formal voting papers’ first preference votes.	Voting Places – Following the close of voting on the final day of all voting. An Operations Group** location (mobile, postal, absent, provisional votes) – from Monday after the close of all voting.
Fresh Formality and First Preference Count	A second count of the above.	An Operations Group** location – from Monday after the close of all voting.
Further Preference Count	To determine a leading candidate with an indicative preference count for the candidates with the most first preference votes from all formal voting papers.*	An Operations Group** location – following an agreed amount / much of the Fresh Formality and First Preference Count (approx. Tuesday after the close of all voting).
All Preference Count	To determine the elected candidate with the distribution of all formal voting papers’ preferences.	An Operations Group** location – following the close of return for Postal, Absent and Provisional Votes.

* Includes an option to not conduct a Further Preference Count in various scenarios such as if a candidate reaches 50%+1 of first preference votes or if there are 3-4 candidates in a determined (similar) range of first preference vote totals.

** In this scenario, a centralised vote counting place. Operations Group explanation follows.

Voting Place Managers manage their respective Formality and First Preference Count. As EA will have real time voting totals, an escalating allocation of extra staff should be assigned to 10-Day and 5-Day Voting Places for the end of voting, the Formality and First Preference Count, return of materials and any other end of Voting Place matter.

During counting, a non-initialised voting paper may be found. The Voting Place Manager inspects the Voting Paper to ensure its’ authenticity and if satisfied as authentic, writes “AVP” followed by their initials on the back of the voting paper. Similar for any non-Voting Place counts.

For 10-Day and 5-Day Voting Places there may be a small number of LA voting papers in the LC voting boxes (further on this below), so there should be a slightly increased variable tolerance allowed when first reporting LA results.

[Potentially / if any uncertainty]. Once the votes are counted and before the results are finalised, conduct a verification of the count. 1-2 person/s selected by the Voting Place Manager, eg. the Assistant Voting Place Manager or a competent Voting Assistant, should overview and compare all counts to the completed reconciliation ensuring all figures match; it’s a check, not a recount. This process may include Absent and Provisional Votes. Any errors should be investigated by the Voting Place Manager. The person/s who completed the verification signs the voting paper statement sheet/s in an area at the bottom titled “Verified By:”.

Develop a system (including verification and contingencies) where all results can be entered electronically through the Voting Place Manager’s assigned computer.

No centralised Operations Group counts are held on the final day of voting.

Intentional Informal Voting, Unintentional Informal Voting and Savings Provisions

As part of the refresh and standardisation of voting and voting papers, start with a fresh, layered understanding and approach to informal voting – both intentional and unintentional. [The work of Rodrigo Praino]. As a starting point, there are no savings provisions.

Design system wide responses with specific solutions to the specific underlying reasons for both kinds of informal voting. See examples in EA Participation.

Formality and First Preference Count

Sort

Voting papers are confirmed as being authentic. Each voting paper is inspected and sorted into Invalid and Valid.

Invalid

• No numbering in or beside one or more voting squares or candidate names. 
• Writing or drawing that may be able to identify the voter. Any other writing or drawing is ignored.
• Tick/s, cross/es and/or non-numerical symbol/s used to represent a numerical sequence.
• One or more number/s in the sequence are repeated, omitted or out of accepted range.

Valid

A relevant and complete number sequence in or beside the voting squares or candidate names.

Sort to the voting paper’s first preference candidate. For large to very large vote totals, this may be a separate stage, having previously sorted into Invalid and all Valids. 

Count

Count the total Invalid voting papers and the total of each candidate’s Valid first preference voting papers.

Fresh Formality and First Preference Count

As above but may include a select further breakdown of the Invalid vote; for internal purposes.

Voting Place Counts Undertaken Following the End of Voting

Federal election example used – other elections follow similarly. Vote counts undertaken at the final day of all voting:

Venue Type	LA Voting Papers LC Voting Papers Envelopes
10-Day Voting Places	LA – Formality and First Preference Count. LC – No count. ENV – Complete final envelope collation.
5-Day Voting Places	LA – Formality and First Preference Count. LC – No count. ENV – Complete final envelope collation.
1-Day Voting Places	LA – Formality and First Preference Count. LC – Sort for reconciliation. ENV – Provisional only. Complete envelope collation.

Return of Voting Materials to Operations Group

Do a layered series of realistic closure plans (including additional staff) for Voting Places depending on number of votes taken, length of operation, remoteness area and how later staff should stay on the final day of voting*. eg. There will be 10-Day Voting Places that take no more than 2000-2500 votes and there will be 10-Day Voting Places that take many multiples of 2000-2500 votes.

Progressive return of LC Voting Boxes (as required) for 10-Day and 5-Day Voting Places.

* Not late!

Results

For a simpler, cleaner results presentation, results are reflective of counted votes. The method/s of presentation best represent the matter/s being presented. Full voting paper preference data is later made public.

There are multiple voting systems used in Australia and all will be included. One widespread and transferable example is shown.

Results Presentation for a Single Member, All Preference Voting election

A thing of beauty, simplicity and information. Count descriptions above.

Count Name	Results Presentation
Formality and First Preference Count* Fresh Formality and First Preference Count*	A vertical column or bar chart and supporting numerical table. Listed in descending candidate order by formal votes’ first preferences, visualised on a gentle darker to lighter middle greyscale.** Includes a separate representation of informality.
Further Preference Count	A simple numerical table.
All Preference Count	100% stack bar graphs.***

* As the same set of Voting Papers, these two counts are represented as a single count, with any later (more recent) count overriding any earlier count.

** I’m very cautious about the representation of figures that are not strictly current counts and comparisons that are not directly comparable (ie. swings). Maybe an option for a simple table showing the electorate wide or leading candidate / party first preference vote change (by %) for directly comparable candidates / parties of the current event.

*** Example at https://antonygreen.com.au/fed2025-calwell-distribution-of-preferences/

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At the conclusion of all Count/s, there will be an elected candidate/s. Have a single model where a Recount may be considered, if one or more considerations are met. These may be automatic (eg. very close % final vote difference between the elected candidate and next in line) or manual (accusation of impropriety, etc.). If the conditions are met, a determined Recount process is followed.

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Staffing for Electoral Events

Through MyGov, coordinate a new, single, persistent electoral staffing workforce, including the maintenance of a level of continuous “on-call” workforce, made up of more permanent, expert and experienced election officials.

Start with a greyscale map of the country with every Voting Place mapped and every Voting Assistant mapped to their enrolled address. Voting Assistants start by being semi-automatically assigned to their nearest Voting Place.

Voting Place Managers and Assistant Voting Place Managers provide feedback on their staff by ranking each on a scale of 3 options; from best to not good – Employ First, Suitable, Consider. Internally, each rank is assigned a point value; 3, 2, 1 for VPM ratings and 1.5, 1, 0.5 for AVPM ratings respectively. Connected to a person’s employment profile, totals are developed into a tiered ranking model (E1, E2, E3, E4) upon which future employment decisions can be made. Over time, weight towards most recent employment first.

10-Day VPM’s / AVPM’s are the best available, preferably experienced staff.

Move away from use of agencies.

This model potentially connects to other large scale, similar employment options such as Census, emergencies, government.

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Introduce slightly higher pay scales for the top tier of non-permanent voting staff and include these staff more permanently in the organisation.

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Utilising the best combined trainers / election officials, overhaul the training model for all election event staff with input from people who’ve competently done the job many times. For example, 10-Day and 5-Day VPM/AVPM need a lengthened, comprehensive, centrally coordinated program.

Potentially for training, 5-Day VPM’s / AVPM’s may do a full day of work / shadowing on the 3rd or 4th day of select 10-Day Voting Places, including pre-open and post-close.

Where possible, non-voter facing EA staff should attend a 10-Day or 5-Day Voting Place to observe for a part-day.

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