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AEC embarks on mailbag trial to close remote community voting gap

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) will test the use of mailbags to enrol First Nations people from remote communities in response to a complaint lodged with the Human Rights Commission about limited voting access. 

Indigenous voters last year said a Commonwealth Electoral Act (CEA) policy that automatically enrolled people using data from government agencies like Centrelink and the Australian Taxation Office was "discriminatory" because it was not applied evenly across the country.

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