South Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 59

59—Printing of Legislative Council ballot papers

        (1)         In printing the ballot papers to be used in a Legislative Council election—

            (a)         the names of candidates included in groups must be printed in groups on the ballot papers before the names of candidates not included in groups (on the basis that the groups and then the individual candidates will be placed sequentially on the ballot paper starting towards the left-hand side of the ballot paper and then moving across the ballot paper (towards the right-hand side) and, if necessary, on to and across a second or subsequent row or rows); and

            (b)         the order of the groups in the ballot papers must be determined by lot; and

            (c)         the order of the names of the candidates whose names are not included in any group must be determined by lot; and

            (d)         where similarity in the names of two or more candidates is likely to cause confusion, the names of those candidates may be arranged with such description or addition as will distinguish them from one another; and

            (e)         a square must be printed opposite the name of each candidate.

        (2)         If notice of an intention to lodge a voting ticket or voting tickets has been given in accordance with this Division, an additional square must be printed on the ballot paper in order to provide for the casting of votes in accordance with that ticket or those tickets.