Current electoral laws are out-of-date, incoherent and have a serious lack of teeth when it comes to enforcement, the State’s ethics and electoral watchdog has said. The Standards in Public Office Commission made a detailed critique of the Electoral Act in a submission to the Government on a proposed electoral commission.
The commission highlighted a large number of what it describes as “gaps and challenges” in the current laws. It argued that if the long-promised electoral commission is to be established, it should first involve a "comprehensive review of the Electoral Acts," and noted that elections had not kept up with technology.
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