Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ELECTORAL) ACT 1988 No. 107 of 1988 - SECT 18

18. Voting at general elections shall be in accordance with the following
principles:

   (a)  voting shall be compulsory;

   (b)  voting shall be by secret ballot;

   (c)  at a general election, an elector shall not vote more than once;

   (d)  at a general election, an elector shall vote only by:

        (i)    expressing a first preference for one independent candidate;

        (ii)   expressing a first preference for one registered party; or

        (iii)  expressing a first preference for one candidate of one
               registered party;
and, if the elector wishes to do so, expressing subsequent preferences for
candidates or parties for which the elector has not expressed a first
preference.