Counting resumes tomorrow - 2020 Territory Election

Counting in the 2020 Territory Election will resume tomorrow at both Darwin and Alice Springs Scrutiny Centres.

Counting in Darwin for all Top End divisions will start at 10am and will include absentee votes from Central Australia and interstate, returned postal votes and votes cast by electors at the COVID-19 quarantine facility at Howard Springs.

Counting in Alice Springs for the divisions of Araluen, Barkly, Braitling, Gwoja and Namatjira will resume at 9am. The count will include returned postal votes. The updated results will be available on the NTEC website.

The NTEC wishes to remind candidates that any campaign corflute signs that may still be in place around their electorates must be taken down immediately.

The NTEC also would like to remind people who have cast postal votes in the 2020 Territory Election of their obligations.

The Electoral Act states (section 65):

* The elector may cast a postal vote at any time before 6 pm on election day. * The elector must sign the elector's name and insert the date and time on the postal vote certificate.

The elector must:

* mark the elector's vote on the declaration ballot paper; and * fold the ballot paper and place it in the envelope bearing the postal vote certificate; and * seal the envelope. * As soon as practicable after ... the elector must send the envelope to the Commission.

Postal votes completed after 6pm on 22 August are not eligible to be included in the count.

The deadline for the return of postal votes is 12 noon on Friday, 4 September.