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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1123 asked in the Legislative Council on 20 October 2020 by Hon Jacqui Boydell

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

TOWN OF PORT HEDLAND — LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION

1123. Hon JACQUI BOYDELL to the Minister for Electoral Affairs:

I refer to question without notice 1110 to the Minister for Local Government, referring to the recent local government elections held in the Town of Port Hedland.

(1) Please table any and all correspondence relating to the Port Hedland election involving the following parties: the Minister for Local Government; the Western Australian Electoral Commission; the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; the CEO of the Town of Port Hedland; and Commissioner Riebeling.

(2) Please provide a time line of how many votes were returned on each day during the polling period.

(3) Will the minister give an undertaking to investigate that no fraudulent voters were entered for this election, as happened in the previous Town of Port Hedland election?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) The Western Australian Electoral Commission has a large number of documents concerning the administration of the election conducted for the Town of Port Hedland. If the honourable member can identify a specific matter, the commission can provide further details.

(2) The requested information is provided for tabling. In relation to voting material returned to the commission or the Town of Port Hedland, the numbers provided to the honourable member reflect voting packages, not individual votes.

[See paper 4500.]

(3) The Western Australian Electoral Commission has not received any allegations of fraudulent voting.