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Essential information for candidates standing for election for the Senate and the House of Representatives

Date: August 2007
This publication supersedes that issued in August 2004

• Corrigenda to the hardcopy of the Candidate's Handbook - September 2007

Contents

• About this handbook


• PART 1: Before the election
• 1 The Writ
• 2 Nominations
• 3 Ballot Papers

• PART 2: The election itself
• 4 Voting
• 5 Election funding & Financial Disclosure
• 6 Scrutineers
• 7 Counting the Votes

• PART 3: After the election
• 8 Recounts & Disputed Returns

• Appendixes
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2


• Glossary
• Downloads

© Commonwealth of Australia 2007

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Attorney-General’s Department, Robert Garran Offices, National Circuit, Canberra ACT 2600 or posted at http://www.ag.gov.au/cca

ISBN 978-1-921427-00-8

Published by the Australian Electoral Commission

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