Update for 100,000 voters

from GetUp!

After last week's High Court success, the AEC indicated that the 100,000 voters enfranchised by the result would have to cast what's know as a 'declaration vote'.

This means that unlike the rest of us, they would have to provide various identifying documents before their vote could be counted. At the last federal election, only 14% of declaration votes cast were actually counted.

After requests from GetUp and several electoral experts, the AEC have now agreed (much to their credit) to print new electoral rolls and allow those 100,000 new voters to have their votes counted the same way as everyone else!