Original article by Shane Wright
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: Online : 24-Apr-25

Data from the Australian Electoral Commission shows that a record 542,000 people voted on Tuesday, when pre-poll voting began. This compares with just 314,000 on the first day of pre-poll voting in 2022. The AEC has also sent out ballot papers to 2.2 million people who have registered for a postal vote. The growing shift to early voting – just 46 per cent of Australians voted on the actual election day in 2022 – has implications for the major political parties and individual candidates, given that some key policies have not yet been announced. The total cost of each party’s policies are also typically released in the last week of an election campaign.

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