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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 two years 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 three years in April.

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 community area has five clan groups, these are;

• Nungarrgarlu Ngalmi
  
• Nungayinbala Murrungun
  
• Nundhirribala Mangurra
  
• Nungumadjbarr Wurramara
  
• Numamurdirdi Wagilag

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Election Day!

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

The containers where all the voting tokens go must be checked and locked tight so that no one can try and cheat.

From 8.00am in the morning to 1.00 pm in the afternoon, the polling booth is open so people can vote. Everyone who wants to vote comes along and tells the clerk or official their name and language group. Their name is then crossed off the election list.

The voter is given a voting token which they have the opportunity to place into their candidate's voting container.

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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 22 members. These are 20 ordinary members, a President and Vice President to represent them in Council matters. To view the elected members please -

The Community will elect a President and Vice President.

You need to be over the age of eighteen, have lived in the community for more than two years and be elected by the community to be a member of Council.

There is an Executive Committee which consists of six members of Council. The Council may give any decisions they wish to the Executive Committee.

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