The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is seeing the highest participation rates since Federation, with 96 per cent of eligible voters currently on the electoral roll compared with 90 per cent in 2010.
- Australian citizens working in Antarctica can enrol to vote but are not required to.
- The homeless can vote if they can provide an address where they were last eligible to enrol, or where their next of kin is enrolled.
- People serving a full-time prison sentence of less than three years can enrol and vote in federal elections and if the sentence is three years or longer, prisoners can remain on the roll but are not entitled to vote until they are released from prison.
- People who are bedridden or unable to get to a post office, and do not have computers, can ring the Electoral Commission and have enrolment forms sent to them.
- There are also options for people with special needs, or with specific circumstances who may need assistance.
The Australian Electoral Commission ((AEC)) estimates more than 600,000 eligible voters have not yet enrolled and is urging them to do so.
or people can phone the information line on 13 23 26.
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