Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 269

             (1)  A ballot paper in a Senate election shall not be informal by virtue of paragraph 268(1)(b) if the voter has marked a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with subsection 239(2).

             (2)  If a ballot paper in a Senate election:

                     (a)  has been marked in accordance with subsection 239(2); and

                     (b)  has been marked in accordance with paragraph 239(1)(a) so that, if it were not marked in accordance with subsection 239(2), it would not be informal by virtue of paragraph 268(1)(b);

the ballot paper shall, for the purposes of sections 272 and 273, be deemed not to have been marked in accordance with subsection 239(2).

             (3)  For the purposes of this section and sections 272 and 273, a voter shall not be taken to have marked a vote in accordance with subsection 239(2) if the voter has placed a preference mark in 2 or more of the squares printed on the ballot paper in accordance with subsection 211(5) or 211A(6).

             (4)  In this section, preference mark means a tick, a cross or the figure 1.