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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-08-27T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Electoral Commission, Dunstan By-Election</name>
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          <heading>Electoral Commission, Dunstan By-Election</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-08-27T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Electoral Commission, Dunstan By-Election</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2024-08-28T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">the Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK </by>().4 June 2024).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2024-08-27T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Electoral Commission, Dunstan By-Election</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Special Minister of State has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;ECSA is in the process of developing a new electronic mark-off system (subject to funding approval) which will reduce the likelihood of these errors reoccurring. </inserted>
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        <text id="20240827b9eba5097d6b42f0b0001108">
          <inserted>To reduce human error, existing training for polling officials will be amended to reinforce the need to ensure electors are correctly marked off. Additionally, procedures will be amended to implement an additional stage to check data integrity prior to sending letters to electors.</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;ECSA has established a call centre to manage calls regarding the non-voter process. </inserted>
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        <text id="20240827b9eba5097d6b42f0b0001110">
          <inserted>ECSA is also in the process of writing to those affected to advise the nature of the error and that their vote was included in the count.</inserted>
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        <text id="20240827b9eba5097d6b42f0b0001111">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;An analysis has identified 197 electors had voted however were incorrectly sent non-voter notices. </inserted>
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        <page num="6051" />
        <text id="20240827b9eba5097d6b42f0b0001112">
          <inserted>Of the 197, 48 have been determined as being due to a technical issue and the remaining 149 are considered as due to human error by polling officials.</inserted>
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