There’s some 95 polling places across New England on Saturday for the federal election.
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Most of them are in halls, schools and community centres, but also in churches, CWA rooms, and even the giant entertainment centre TRECC at the Longyard in Tamworth.
In Tamworth, there’s at least 12 polling places, including the Coledale Community Centre and Mary Help of Christians church hall.
All booths will open from 8am and close at 6pm.
The pre-poll voting centre that has operated in Darling St in Tamworth for the past two weeks is not open for voting, except for interstate voters – from outside NSW.
If you’re enrolled in NSW and you turn up there to vote, you will be told to go to another centre.
In New England, there are 10 candidates and on the green ballot paper, for the House of Representatives, you need to number the candidates in order of your choice from 1 to 10 – for it to be a formal or valid vote.
When it comes to the Senate paper – which might be a bit of a handful to handle in the voting booth – you have two choices in voting.
You can elect to vote above the line – where you need to number your choices from 1to 6 – or below the line, where you are required to number from one to 12 to have a formal vote.
The Australian Electoral Commission says that if you make a mistake, you simply need to ask for another ballot paper – and go again.
Most of the polling centres in New England are wheelchair accessible, but some are not.
The biggest polling booths in Tamworth are at Tamworth High and Tamworth Primary schools and at TRECC – and because of the timing of the election this weekend, which coincides with the start of school holidays, many of the traditional cake stalls and sausage sizzles might be off the menu.