Under a controversial council election change, non-resident ratepayers had to opt in by early August to be able to vote. Many missed the cut, or didn’t know about it.
Holiday-home owners are among hundreds of thousands of ratepayers who will miss out on voting for their local council due to a controversial change to the electoral system that removed the automatic right of non-residents to cast a ballot.
Statewide since 2020, there has been an increase of 277,141 voters to 4.6 million – yet the number of registered voters climbed in only 11 of 79 councils. She and her husband spend half of every week at the beach in Blairgowrie, and the other half at their primary residence in Kew in Melbourne’s inner east.
“Councillors and management are accountable to ratepayers and the community. If you chip away at or disincentivise them from participating in democracy, then it reduces accountability.” “Maybe will help the local area because it’ll bring the election back to community politics,” she said. In the City of Port Phillip, which includes St Kilda and South Melbourne, the electoral roll has contracted by 16 per cent, with 91 per cent fewer non-resident ratepayers.
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