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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 230

Errors not to forfeit vote

    No omission in the Roll or in the certified list of voters or an approved list of voters of any Christian or given name, or entry of a wrong Christian or given name, sex, date of birth or address and no mistake in the spelling of any surname, shall warrant the rejection at any polling of any claim to vote if the voter is sufficiently identified in the opinion of the presiding officer, a polling official, or a voting officer within the meaning of Division   3 of Part   XVA, and no elector shall be disqualified from voting under the name appearing on the Roll because his or her surname has been changed by marriage.


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