Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Special Minister of State, upon notice, on 15 September 2011:

In regard to the 2010 Federal Election and the issue of multiple voting:

(1) How many cases of potential multiple voting were identified.

(2) Of these cases, how many were in each electorate and how were these dealt with (for example, polling clerk error).

(3) Of the cases, how many did the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) write to and what is that number per electorate.

(4) Of the cases that the AEC wrote to, how many have not provided a satisfactory response and what is that number per electorate.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Special Minister of State has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question:

(1) 29,920.

(2) Cases per electorate - refer Attachment A. After eliminating official errors, including lists not being marked or scanned correctly, 16,210 electors remained to be investigated. 21 electors were subsequently found to be deceased.

(3) Enquiry letters were sent to 16,189 electors, seeking information as to why they had been marked as having voted more than once. For number per electorate – refer Attachment B.

13,775 cases required no further action:

2,414 cases were further investigated:

19 cases were referred to the AFP for further investigation. In three cases the AFP’s initial review indicated no further action. The AFP conducted a Day of Action on 12 May 2011 to obtain further information from the remaining 16 apparent multiple voters. The AFP reported that:

(4) Summary of results – refer Attachment C

ATTACHMENT A

ATTACHMENT B

ATTACHMENT C