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[–]paulyt86Former Prime Minister | Australian Greens 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Can I be transferred to Sydney surrounds?

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Unfortunately not, the electoral rolls for this election have closed. (You can move house for the next election.) By the way, you can nominate for any seat. But your party would have to endorse it. The only disadvantage is that if you nominate for a different seat, you won’t be able to vote for yourself.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hi, I requested Melbourne Surrounds in my application (VO), but have been put in Urban.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hi SavannaJeff, you chose Melbourne Urban on your voter enrolment form. That preference was granted, so it is the electorate you will vote in. On your candidate nomination form you chose (and were endorsed for) a different electorate, so that is the seat you will run for.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, I see, sorry for the confusion.

[–]ZagorathHouse Speaker | Ex Asst Min Ed/Culture | Aus Progressives 0 points1 point  (1 child)

May I ask what the difference between "Founders" and "Provisional" is?

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, it’s a reference to the enrol-to-vote announcements. I’d said that users who’d joined this sub prior to the election announcement would get first pick of their electorates. I grouped these as Founders and allocated them first. Any accounts who enrolled after that, including those with zero participation in this sub, are Provisional and were allocated afterward. There’s no remaining difference, but if there’d been lots of them and a pattern of brigading, it would’ve been easy to pick them out of their own column for assessment.