Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An elector who is an ordinary postal voter may, in an approved form signed by the elector and posted, faxed or delivered (by the elector or someone else) to the commission or returning officer for the electoral district for which the elector is enrolled, request a ballot paper and declaration envelope.
(2) The request must state the address to which the ballot paper and declaration envelope is to be posted, delivered or sent.
(3) If the request is received not later than 6p.m. on the Thursday before polling day, the commission or returning officer must post, deliver or send a ballot paper and declaration envelope to the elector.
(4) The commission must, as soon as practicable after the issue of the writ for an election, post a ballot paper and declaration envelope to each special postal voter.
(5) Returning officers and the commission must keep a record of all ballot papers and declaration envelopes posted, delivered or sent under this section.
(6) Subject to subsection (8), on receiving the ballot paper and declaration envelope, the elector must—
(a) sign the appropriate declaration on the declaration envelope before another elector or a person approved by the commission for the purposes of this paragraph and have the other elector or person sign the envelope as witness; and
(b) mark a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with section 122; and
(c) place the ballot paper in the envelope and seal the envelope; and
(d) either—
(i) give the envelope to a member of the commission's staff at an office of the commission before polling day or at a polling booth on polling day; or
(ii) post or send the envelope, or give it to another person to post or send, to the commission or the returning officer.
(7) If the elector is unable to vote without help, another person may help by doing any of the things mentioned in subsection (6)(b) to (d) on behalf of the elector.
(8) A member of the commission's staff who is given an envelope under subsection (6)(d)(i) must—
(a) if it is given before polling day—send the envelope to the appropriate returning officer or put the envelope in a ballot box at the office; or
(b) if it is given on polling day—put the envelope in a ballot box at the office.