Outline of Argument
Issues
This application is brought by Senator Robert Day against the Australian Electoral Officer for South Australia and the Commonwealth. Electors were prescribed with Form E, for the first time since Federation. As stated in the Commonwealth Constitution section 7, voters were required to exercise a choice with a ballot paper between two prescribed methods of voting. On the ballot paper, the first method located above the ‘dividing line’ and the second method located below the ‘dividing line’.
The voter must then choose which senators he or she elects as the senator for the State. It is questionable whether the voter is making a genuine choice because one of the methods require the voter to vote above the dividing line.
Issues
This application is brought by Senator Robert Day against the Australian Electoral Officer for South Australia and the Commonwealth. Electors were prescribed with Form E, for the first time since Federation. As stated in the Commonwealth Constitution section 7, voters were required to exercise a choice with a ballot paper between two prescribed methods of voting. On the ballot paper, the first method located above the ‘dividing line’ and the second method located below the ‘dividing line’.
The voter must then choose which senators he or she elects as the senator for the State. It is questionable whether the voter is making a genuine choice because one of the methods require the voter to vote above the dividing line.