Vanessa Teague
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Dr Teague
Decision notice on your access application
I refer to your access application made under the Freedom of Information Act 2016 (FOI
Act), dated 8 December 2020. This application requested access to: “documents,
including email, dated from 2016 to 2020, relating to the decision to change EVACS's
behaviour in its grouping of transfer values for the 2020 election count.”
Authority
I am an officer authorised by the ACT Electoral Commissioner to make decisions about
access to public sector information, in accordance with section 18 of the FOI Act.
Decision
I have identified two documents containing information within the scope of your access
application. These are outlined in the attached Schedule of documents.
I have decided to:
grant part access to both (2) documents
For the reasons outlined in the attached Reasons for decision, I have redacted some of
the information within those documents under section 35(1)(c) of the FOI Act. This is
because it is contrary to the public interest information.
Disclosure of information
The documents are attached.
Disclosure log
Please note that section 28 of the FOI Act requires publication of access applications and
any information subsequently released on our disclosure log
www.elections.act.gov.au/about_us/freedom_of_information
This means that if access to the information is granted, it wil also be made available to
everyone on our website, unless the access application is an application for your personal,
business, commercial, financial or professional information.
Review rights
You may apply to the ACT Ombudsman to review my decision under section 73 of the FOI
Act. An application for review must be made within 20 days of receipt of this decision
notice.
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You may submit a request for review of my decision to the ACT Ombudsman by writing in
one of the fol owing ways:
Email (preferred):
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Post: The ACT Ombudsman GPO Box 442 CANBERRA ACT 2601
More information about ACT Ombudsman review is available on the ACT Ombudsman
website at:
www.ombudsman.act.gov.au/improving-the-act/freedom-of-information
Yours sincerely
Ro Spence
Deputy Electoral Commissioner
18 December 2020
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