It’s not really an issue. I’ll reply to the letter stating she’s out of the country and I’m basically 100% certain they’ll drop it. Probably without even bothering to cross-reference whether I’m telling the truth.
surely the AEC can check with immigration whether I voter is in the country or not
Maybe, but I don’t they could do that, even if they wanted to. And I very much doubt they would bother with that level of effort.
Government departments infamously don’t often talk to each other, sometimes because of privacy regulations, other times just because they function as separate organisations and that institutional practice just isn’t there.
It’s not really an issue. I’ll reply to the letter stating she’s out of the country and I’m basically 100% certain they’ll drop it. Probably without even bothering to cross-reference whether I’m telling the truth.
Maybe, but I don’t they could do that, even if they wanted to. And I very much doubt they would bother with that level of effort.
Government departments infamously don’t often talk to each other, sometimes because of privacy regulations, other times just because they function as separate organisations and that institutional practice just isn’t there.