Electoral Backgrounders
Electoral Backgrounders are to assist candidates, political parties, parliamentarians, media commentators, academics, schools, and citizens generally, in understanding aspects of electoral legislation that give rise to most of the questions and complaints received by the Australian Electoral Commission during an election period.
- No. 20 - Polling Place Offences [PDF 241k]
- No. 19 - Constitutional Disqualifications and Intending Candidates [PDF 56k]
- No. 18 - Informal Voting [PDF 67k]
- No. 17 - Compulsory Voting [PDF 61k]
- No. 16 - Influencing Votes [PDF 48k]
- No. 15 - Electoral Advertising [PDF 361k]
- No. 14 - Electoral Fraud and Multiple Voting [PDF 236k]
- No. 11 - JSCEM Report on the 1998 Federal Election
- No. 2 - Parliamentary Report on Section 44 of the Constitution
- No. 1 - JSCEM on the Conduct of the 1996 Federal Election
The Electoral Backgrounder numbers will not necessarily be in sequential order as some earlier editions have been revised and replaced by later versions.



