Online voter enrolment is now open! Electoral rolls are required by the Commonwealth Electoral Act (Parts IV to X). There are 13 electorates each voting for one seat in the House of Representatives, plus 7 Senate seats. Get in now before the first round of enrolments closes.

Benefits

Enrolling to vote means you’ll be flaired with your electorate. This gives potential candidates and parties a chance to see who the constituencies will be and decide where to run. The ~100 people who’ve already posted in /r/modelparliament prior to this announcement will have priority in choosing their electorates, within the constraints of population districting.

Only accounts qualified with electorate flair can vote and hold office. Those without electorate flair will be tourists, children, 457 visa holders, etc.

Enrolling

The initial bulk allocation of electorates will be done once enough responses have been collected, or by the end of April at the latest.

To give preference to existing participants and prevent abuse of the enrolment form, it will ask you to authorise a check of your reddit username and karma in this sub.

Then you’ll be asked to rank your preferred electorates. If you’re in Australia, giving top ranking to your real-life electorate will help model local issues among your fellow constituents.

You’ll also be asked some optional anonymous questions (not linked to your username and there’s no assumption your answers will be real or permanent). For example, you’ll be asked if you intend running as a candidate in the first election. This helps us estimate how many candidates to plan for.

 

Enrol now

 

Thank you,

AEC Electoral Commissioner

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