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dent, senator, governor and deputy must be counted
in that order and where a candidate is elected to
a position their votes for any lower position on
this list must be counted according to the next av
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a ticket to any office.{{br{}{L{I{{br{}{L{I700.062
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the Electoral Commissioner must include the name,
party and ticket position (if any) of each citize
n qualified for the office but must exclude any ci
tizen (such as a judge or electoral commissioner)
who is ineligible for elected office.{{br{}{L{I{{b
r{}{L{I700.082 PRESIDENTIAL MAJORITY If the Democh
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id not, at the last stage of the Demochoice count,
have more than half of the votes cast, then the E
C is to conduct a runoff election between the two
leading candidates at the the last stage of the co
unt on the next Saturday following election day.{{
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dcsetup.php (if available) to conduct elections un
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script and the provisions of this code with respe
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the script.{{br{}{L{I{{br{}{L{IExpert Tabulators{{
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rence votes for all candidates by 1 more than the
number of vacancies to be filled and by increasing
the result to the next highest whole number.{{br
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l count for an election under this Code must be co
nducted, mutatis mutandis, according to Part 2 of
Schedule 6 to the Constitution Act 1902 of New Sou
th Wales. The schedule is available at http://www.
austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca1902188/s
ch6.html{{br{}{L{I{{br{}{L{I12 OFFENCES Chapters 9
50-953 provide for electoral offences.{{br{}{L{I{{
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Electoral Commissioner Amendment to the Constituti
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conducted by a person other than the Electoral Com
missioner if that election was otherwise held acco
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for election registration. The electoral commissi
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object to any entry in the register on the ground
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te who did not, at the last stage of the Demochoic
e count, have more than half of the votes cast, th
en the EC is to conduct a runoff election between
the two leading candidates as of the the last stag
e of the count on the next Saturday following elec
tion day.{{br{}{L{I{{br{}{L{I21 If a candidate is
elected as president and deputy at{L{Ithe same tim
e, their seat in the National Assembly{L{Imust be
treated as a legislative vacancy.{{
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