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Covid will change how people vote at this year's federal election with delays expected at polling booths and those who are sick allowed to phone in their ...

In order to vote you must be enrolled, you can check your details at the AEC website. Certain polling booths will be open two weeks ahead of election day to allow people to vote early. You can apply online or fill in a form available from any AEC office. More details will be released ahead of election day. Pencils will be sanitised after use, and there could also be QR check-in codes, venue capacity limits and masks required, depending on the rules in place at the time. At the last election 89,830 people voted through special hospital teams.

When is the enrolment deadline? All Australian citizens who are eligible to vote must be correctly enrolled by 8pm local time on Monday, April 18.

To be eligible to enrol from overseas, you must be: If you would like to add a temporary postal address to your enrolment record, however, you mustupdate your details onlineor contact a member from the AEC office. If you are overseas and intending to return to Australia within six years, you canregister as an overseas electorand general postal voter. If you have moved, you are eligible to enrol at your new address only if you have lived there for at least one month. If you have been temporarily displaced from your enrolled address due to floods or other natural disasters, the option to remain enrolled at that address is available. If you are 16 or 17 years old there is also an option to enrol now in preparation for when you turn 18.

Australia has recorded more COVID-19-related deaths, while the Australian Electoral Commission says it will ensure COVID-19 public health restrictions won't ...

"If we have to read out the Senate ballot paper for people in telephone voting, it's going to take some time. "If we have to read out the Senate ballot paper for people in telephone voting, it's going to take some time. Meanwhile, there were 236 in South Australian hospitals, including 13 in ICU; 56 patients are hospitalised in Tasmania, including one in ICU; there are 62 patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in the ACT, including two in ICU; and 31 people with COVID-19 are hospitalised in the in the Northern Territory, including one in ICU. Some 1,568 people with the virus are hospitalised in NSW, including 62 in ICU; there are 381 patients in Victorian hospitals, including 20 in ICU; 518 in Queensland hospitals, including 14 in ICU; 240 in Western Australia hospitals, including eight in ICU. Meanwhile, there were 236 in South Australian hospitals, including 13 in ICU; 56 patients are hospitalised in Tasmania, including one in ICU; there are 62 patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in the ACT, including two in ICU; and 31 people with COVID-19 are hospitalised in the in the Northern Territory, including one in ICU. Some 1,568 people with the virus are hospitalised in NSW, including 62 in ICU; there are 381 patients in Victorian hospitals, including 20 in ICU; 518 in Queensland hospitals, including 14 in ICU; 240 in Western Australia hospitals, including eight in ICU.

The Australian Electoral Commission wants isolation exemptions to be granted for non-positive COVID-19 contacts so they can physically vote on polling day.

We want people to come prepared, we want people to do their research.” People will probably be waiting longer on the line for telephone than they would be if they wait in line at the polling station. Australian National University infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon said election day could be the catalyst for rolling back close contact isolation rules.