The AEC revealed 17,676,347 people were registered at the close of the rolls as it warned against the growing threat posed by “tinfoil” online election conspiracies.
, which could take days or weeks to decide as an expected 1.2 million postal votes are counted.
“People have asked me, ‘will we get a result on the night?’ The answer is, I don’t know. It depends on how close the result is on the day,” Rogers said. The percentage of 18 to 24-year-olds is at 91.5 per cent – its highest rate ever – while the share of Indigenous people on the voting roll is at a record-high 94 per cent.
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