The AEC has found that a Liberal Party volunteer “did nothing wrong” when he entered the mobile voting booth with residents of a Melbourne aged care facility to assist them with filling out their Senate ballot papers.
The Victorian manager of the AEC, Steve Kennedy, said that while party campaign workers were not allowed within six metres of a polling booth, this “did not apply to mobile booths” (such as at nursing homes), and the rules allowed party volunteers to assist voters in such circumstances.
The aged care home is located in Melbourne's inner east and sits within federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's electorate of Kooyong.
