Some electoral tweaking

Late last year the Justice and Electoral Select Committee reported back the Electoral Amendment Bill, which was implementing recommendations from the 2011 election inquiry.

There’s a few changes made by the select committee. They are:

• Removing the proposed ban on displaying streamers, ribbons and rosettes on election day
• Allowing the High Court to order a recalculation of the allocation of list seats if there is a successful electorate electoral petition
• Requiring voters to verbally confirm their identity when being issued voting papers, so one can’t just use an Easy Vote card to get issued voting papers

All seem very sensible.