Millions of voters turning down their chance to snag a democracy sausage on election day by voting early.
Millions of voters are turning down their chance to snag a democracy sausage on election day by voting early.On top of this, three to four times as many people are expected to cast pre-poll votes than postal votes, ABC Chief Election Analyst Antony Green says.Almost 2.5 million postal vote applications have been made so far, with close to 900,000 postal votes returned, AEC data shows.
Last election, about 1.6 million people cast postal votes and almost five million cast pre-poll votes. In total, about 40 per cent of the 17 million-odd Australians enrolled to vote decided to cast their ballots early in the 2019 federal election.'Voting period, rather than a voting day' He says COVID and the concerns of some about gathering in crowds was contributing the uptick in postal votes.
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