Tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians will be unable to vote in the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum.
The Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers on Wednesday said the number of Indigenous people enrolled to vote is the highest it has ever been but there are still thousands unable to have their say.
Australia Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers told the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters there were tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians unregistered to vote. Picture: Supplied Mr Rogers was then quizzed on the"overincarceration" of Indigenous Australians and the discretionary power of heads of corrective services when it came to prisoner voting.
“The corrective services in most of the states said they didn’t prefer that as a method of voting because it was disruptive, and they would have preferred us to provide postal votes, which is what we’ve been doing effectively for the last few elections.”
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