NSW: Voters offered prompt to avoid $55 fine

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2008
NSW: Voters offered prompt to avoid $55 fine

A new email and text service has been launched in New South Wales .. to save people
being fined 55 dollars for forgetting to vote at state and local government elections.

The New South Wales Electoral Commission has launched the initiative .. to remind the
state's four-and-a-half million voters when and where elections are being held.

The state's Electoral Commissioner COLIN BARRY says with SMS and emails now firmly
cemented in Australian society .. it makes sense to adapt the technology to the election
environment.

AAP RTV evt/ldj/wz/psm/

KEYWORD: ELECTORAL (SYDNEY)

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