if you move between electorates and don't get your enrolment updated before the deadline, you vote absentee for your previous electorate.
This isn't actually entirely true.
If you moved recently, yes. If you moved a long time ago, and didn't bother/know to/get around to updating your enrolment, it's possible to be removed from the Federal rolls and only find out on polling day (basically, if the new occupant marks two confirmation of enrolment letters to you as return to sender, you're removed). I know at least one person disenfranchised this way. (As a bonus, this person was a naturalised Australian and had some difficulty re-enrolling because proof of citizenship is not as easy for them. In her case, a citizenship certificate was issued to her parents, not to her, so she must visit them to borrow it for chores like this.)
It's now quite hard to get removed from NSW or VIC state though, they use the drivers licence and electricity service databases to automatically update you. (So that part of your wishlist is coming true.) The Federal and State rolls sometimes get quite badly out of sync, see Antony Green on that issue.
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Date: 2012-11-07 10:19 am (UTC)This isn't actually entirely true.
If you moved recently, yes. If you moved a long time ago, and didn't bother/know to/get around to updating your enrolment, it's possible to be removed from the Federal rolls and only find out on polling day (basically, if the new occupant marks two confirmation of enrolment letters to you as return to sender, you're removed). I know at least one person disenfranchised this way. (As a bonus, this person was a naturalised Australian and had some difficulty re-enrolling because proof of citizenship is not as easy for them. In her case, a citizenship certificate was issued to her parents, not to her, so she must visit them to borrow it for chores like this.)
It's now quite hard to get removed from NSW or VIC state though, they use the drivers licence and electricity service databases to automatically update you. (So that part of your wishlist is coming true.) The Federal and State rolls sometimes get quite badly out of sync, see Antony Green on that issue.