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Elections

Before Voting

Election Day!

Counting the Vote

Members of Council

Before Voting

The clerk keeps a list of everyone who lives in the community. Only people who are over eighteen and have lived in the community for twelve months can be on the list. A person must be on the list in order to vote.

Council decides when to have an election, but there must be at least one election every two years on a Friday in May.

The clerk then puts up a poster telling everyone when the election will be held. The clerk has to give at least 28 days notice of the coming election.

The clerk may authorize the use of mobile polling booths which may operate the week before the election.

In Anmatjere there are ten ward groupings who can each nominate two candidates - candidates are people who want to be members of Council. These ten are:

• Alyuen (on Aileron Station)
  
• Anyungunba (on Pine Hill Station)
  
• Engawala (on Alcoota Station)
  
• Laramba (on Napperby Station)
  
• Nturiya (the western part of Ti-Tree Station)
  
• Pmara Jutunta (the central part of Ti-Tree Station)
  
• Ti-Tree (the Town of Ti-Tree)
  
• Wilora (on Stirling Station)
  
• Woolla (Adelaide Bore and the eastern part of Ti-Tree Station)
  
• Yanginj (on Anningie Station)

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Election Day!

The clerk can ask people to help with the election, they are called Polling Officials.

The box where all the votes are placed is be checked to make sure its empty, then its locked tight so no one can try and cheat.

The polling booth is open for as long as the clerk feels is appropriate so people can vote. Everyone who wants to vote comes along and tells the clerk or official their name and ward. Their name is then crossed off the election list.

The voter is given a ballot paper which has a list of their ward's candidates. The voter then places and "1" next to their first preference and a "2" next to the voters second preference.

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Counting the Vote

After the polling place closes the clerk starts to count the votes. Its very important that the clerk have someone else present to make sure no one cheats, so each candidate may send a scrutineer to make sure everything is done properly.

Once the counting has finished the clerk must sign a document stating:

• Names of officials
  
• Names of scrutineers
  
• Number of votes
  
• Number of invalid votes (those that people couldn't understand)
  
• Number of postal votes

The clerk then goes and puts up a notice saying who won the election.

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Members of Council

The Council consists of 20 members. Each ward elects two people to represent them in Council matters. To view the members please click - Elected Members

The Council will choose a Chairman and Vice Chairman from among the 20 elected members at the first meeting after elections.

You need to be over the age of eighteen, have lived in the community for more than three years out of the last six years (except for ti-tree where only twelve months are needed) and be elected by the community to be a member of Council.

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