With less than eight weeks to go until Queensland’s first state election amid the coronavirus pandemic, here’s everything you need to know.
With just under eight weeks to go until what will be a COVID-safe election day, likely gone are the hopes of an election day sausage sizzle and candidates greeting voters with hugs and handshakes.
Postal voting applications will open next Monday, September 14, with a link made available to apply on theEarly voting will run from October 19 until October 30, with approximately 200 early voting centres to open at locations across Queensland. The centres will operate under expanded opening hours, and voters will be encouraged to come and vote outside peak periods.
There are three ways Queenslanders can lodge their vote: early voting , postal voting, or physically lining up and voting on October 31.Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath toldin June that work was being done to increase pre-poll locations, extend booth hours and ramp up phone voting in the two weeks before election day, so as to keep things COVID-safe.
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