The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) announced on Thursday afternoon that people are coming forward to fill positions in areas where federal election staff shortages were identified on Wednesday.
Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said in a release on Thursday that over the past 24 hours, 5,000 new staff had signed up to fill the void in areas of concern on polling day, Saturday, May 21.
“The new registrations mean some of the locations we identified yesterday are no longer of critical concern, but others are still falling short, and given the current environment, there could be new areas of concern arise,” he said.
“However, the impact will be limited. We will have the absolute vast majority of the 7,000 polling places we operate across the nation on election day open and operating as per usual.”…
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