Early voting opens in the federal election – but it brings some problems for voters and parties
- Written by Zareh Ghazarian, Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
More than 18 million Australians are enrolled to vote at the federal election on May 3.
A fair proportion of them – perhaps as many as half – will take advantage of early voting, which starts Tuesday April 22.
Hundreds of locations around Australia will morph into pre-polling centres for the next couple of weeks as we enter the final...
