Australian Electoral Commission

Part of the Finance portfolio and a Federal authority, also called AEC

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process.

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Marriage equality plebiscite cost estimates
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Graeme Bowman on .

Refused.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Bowman I refer to your email of 18 September 2016 4:39 PM, to the AEC in which you request (your ‘Internal Review Request’) a...
Marriage equality plebiscite cost estimates
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Charlie Somerville. Annotated by William Summers on .

Refused.

You should appeal. The reasons given for this being against the public interest seem very weak. Some of this strikes me as very dubious: “The effe...
Documentation relating to software change required for upcoming federal election
Follow up sent to Australian Electoral Commission by Peter Serwylo on .

Successful.

Thanks Owen, We appreciate you sending that document through. Yours sincerely, Tristan McLeay and Peter Serwylo
List of funding sources (and amounts) for One Nation Party in the 2016 Federal Senate election
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Peter B on .

Information not held.

                UNCLASSIFIED Dear Dr Bell I refer to your 5 July 2016 11:16 AM to the Australian Electoral Commission (‘AEC’) in which you request...
Payment to polling sites NSW will do ...
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Victoria Kotevich on .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Ms Kotevich I refer to your email dated 4 July 2016 12:48 PM to the Australian Electoral Commission (‘AEC’) in which you request...
Social media policy
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to James Smith on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Smith I refer to your email of 18 April 2016 3:31 PM to the Australian Electoral Commission (‘AEC’) in which you request (‘FO...
EasyCount Known Bugs 2012 and Senate Upgrade Project 2008
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Owen Kelly on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Kelly I refer to your email dated 2 March 2016 10:18 PM in which you request (your ‘FOI Request’) access under the Freedom of...
Name change for Female who was married!
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Ian Bagshaw on .

Refused.

For-Official-Use-Only Dear Mr Bagshaw   I refer to I refer to your email of 1 December 2015  making a request for the release of information fro...
Who owns the right to vote
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Sophia Wrightman. Annotated by AMartin on .

Information not held.

check out what happened with Arjay Martin and the AEC last election - www.arjaymartin.com
Documents & procedures relating to the operation, backup and disaster recovery of the EasyCount Senate software application
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Sam Silvester on .

Partially successful.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Silvester Thank you for your telephone call on 11 February 2015 following up your email of 24 November, 2014 11:37 AM about t...
Liberal Democratic Party
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Michael Galbraith on .

Long overdue.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Galbraith I refer to your request (‘FOI Request’) for access to documents relating to the application for registration of the...
Testing, installation, and verification procedures and data for EasyCount Senate software
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Josh Deprez. Annotated by Daniel O'Connor on .

Refused.

Well that's not an internal review!
Documents and correspondence in relation to Michael Cordover and Matthew Landauer
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Alecia Wonsack on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Ms Wonsack I refer to your email of 21 July 2014 3:12 AM in which you request (‘FOI Request’) documents and correspondence in re...
IT Network Documentation - IPv4/v6 Public Facing addresses
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Ben Fairless on .

Information not held.

UNCLASSIFIED Dear Mr Fairless I refer to your emails dated 17 July 2014 4:42 PM in which you respectively request (‘FOI Request’) for access to do...
Documents informing the response to Senate Order 330
Follow up sent to Australian Electoral Commission by Brendan Molloy on .

Information not held.

Thanks for the reply. I am satisfied with the response, albeit completely flabbergasted. -- Regards, Brendan Molloy President Pirate Party Au...
Total Incoming Revenue from "EasyCount"
Follow up sent to Australian Electoral Commission by Ben Fairless on .

Withdrawn by the requester.

Please withdraw my request "Total Incoming Revenue from "EasyCount". The requested information has now since been published online: https://www.righ...
2013 federal election - complaints, WA Senate recount
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Andrew Donnellan. Annotated by Andrew Donnellan on .

Successful.

I have now filed a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Failing to respond after you've been told three times is just...
Attachment B to LS4944
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Michael Cordover. Annotated by Michael Cordover on .

Refused.

The AEC has provided me with a copy of this attachment B as part of the AAT process. A transcript of it is available at http://easycount.mjec.net/files...
Version of VisualBasic used in EasyCount software
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Peter Lawler. Annotated by Luke John on .

Successful.

Whilst scrutineering the aec gave the following additional information. Developed in Visual Studio .NET C# for .NET Framework 3.5 SQL Server (Comp...
Release the Source Code that Counts the Votes
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Brenden Parker. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .

Waiting clarification.

Let me try to dissect the AEC's response for the benefit of the requester or anyone else who may want a simpler version. This is my interpretation of w...
Software by which Senate counts are conducted
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Michael Cordover. Annotated by Michael Cordover on .

Refused.

I've set up a microsite to host all the documentation associated with this request as it progresses through IC review. All the latest details can be fo...
Machine readable document from which "LS4883 - file 13/945" is derived
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Matthew Landauer. Annotated by Steven Roddis on .

Refused.

@Locutus Sum I Believe the request is for a useable and accessible format. Some people have problems with sight or comprehension. Images of a scanned...
By-election results 1984-2000
Follow up sent to Australian Electoral Commission by Andrew Owens on .

Successful.

Thank you very much for providing me with the information as requested - I am genuinely grateful for it and it will help with my research on voting...
What are eligible Australians
Request to Australian Electoral Commission by Sophia Wrightman. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Long overdue.

It is not very obvious to a Right to Know user, but this request was answered by the Australian Electoral Commission in another email thread. The lette...
What constitutes a religious duty to abstain from voting
Response by Australian Electoral Commission to Sophia Wrightman on .

Refused.

For-Official-Use-Only Dear Ms Wrightman I refer to your email dated 19 December 2013 4:08 PM in which you make the above FOI Request. I enclose...

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