Special Enrolment Provisions

Special enrolment provisions are available for people who are:

Overseas
At risk by having their address appear on the roll
Living more than 20km from a polling place
Unable to sign their name due to physical incapacity
Unable to attend a polling place or vote because of religious beliefs or belonging to a religious order
In prison
A patient in a hospital or nursing home and because of serious illness or infirmity is unable to travel to a polling place
Living at home and because of serious illness or infirmity are unable to travel to a polling place
Caring for a person not in a hospital who is seriously ill or infirm and is unable to travel to a polling place
Homeless
Have no fixed address

Overseas

There are special enrolment provisions for electors who are going overseas briefly and for an extended period, as well as for those already overseas.

Please see our Overseas Electors section for all the information you need to know.

At risk by having their address appear on the roll

Electors who believe that having their address shown on the publicly available electoral roll could endanger their personal safety, or the safety of their family, can apply for silent elector status.

Those who are registered with silent elector status only have their names visible on the electoral roll. No address details are shown. You can also indicate if you would prefer to receive your ballot material posted to you automatically at election time.

If you are changing your address you must also complete an enrolment form. It is best to lodge both forms together.

Silent Application Form

Living more than 20km from a polling place

Those electors who live more than 20km from a polling place may qualify to register as a “Distance Elector”. You can apply to be placed on the register under this category. Electors on this register receive ballot material for an election automatically in the post.

General Postal Voter Form

Unable to sign their name due to physical incapacity

The form below is an enrolment form for those electors who are unable to sign their name due to physical incapacity. Someone else may sign the form on behalf of the elector. The person who does sign must be eligible to be on the electoral roll.

A medical certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner and certified that the elector is unable to sign must also be attached to the form.

The form also gives the option of registering as a postal voter, meaning ballot material will be automatically posted at election time.

Enrolment Form for persons unable to sign their name

Unable to attend a polling place or vote because of religious beliefs or belonging to a religious order

Electors whose religious beliefs, or membership of a religious order, prevent them from attending a polling place on polling day may apply to be placed on the register for this category. Electors on this register receive ballot material for an election automatically in the post.

General Postal Voter Form

In prison

Prisoners who fit enrolment eligibility and are serving a sentence are eligible to enrol in Queensland but are not able to vote in Queensland State and local government elections. Electors who are on remand or have not been convicted and sentenced are able to vote.

For Federal elections prisoners can register for a postal vote if they are serving a sentence of three years or less.

Electoral Enrolment of a Prisoner

General Postal Voter Form – Federal Elections Only

A patient in a hospital or nursing home and because of serious illness or infirmity is unable to travel to a polling place

Electors who are a patient in a hospital or nursing home, that is not a polling place, and because of serious illness or infirmity are unable to travel to a polling place on or before polling day may apply to register under this category.

For Queensland State and local government elections those electors registered under this category will receive an automatic postal vote application form in the post that is to be completed, signed and returned to the commission.

This form gives the elector a choice between having ballot material (postal vote) sent to them or having an electoral officer come to them to take their vote (electoral visit vote).

General Postal Voter Form

Living at home and because of serious illness or infirmity are unable to travel to a polling place

Electors who are living at home and because of serious illness or infirmity are unable to travel to a polling place may apply to register under this category.

For Queensland State and local government elections those electors registered under this category will receive an automatic postal vote application form in the post that is to be completed, signed and returned to the commission.

This form gives the elector a choice between having ballot material (postal vote) sent to them or having an electoral officer come to them to take their vote (electoral visit vote).

General Postal Voter Form

Caring for a person not in a hospital who is seriously ill or infirm and is unable to travel to a polling place

Electors who are caring for a person not in hospital who is seriously ill or infirm and is unable to travel to a polling place may apply to be registered under this category.

For Queensland State and local government elections those electors registered under this category will receive an automatic postal vote application form in the post that is to be completed, signed and returned to the commission.

This form gives the elector a choice between having ballot material (postal vote) sent to them or having an electoral officer come to them to take their vote (electoral visit vote).

General Postal Voter Form

Homeless

Electors who are experiencing homelessness are still eligible to enrol and vote. You can complete an enrolment form for persons who have no fixed address. You can apply to enrol for;

• where you were last eligible to be enrolled

• where one of your next of kin is enrolled

• where you were born

• where you have the closest connection.

Additional information is provided on the first page of the form. You can also contact us for further information.

If your circumstances change and you establish a permanent place of living and live there for a period of more than one month, you must enrol as an ordinary elector.

Enrolment form for persons experiencing homelessness

Have no fixed address

Electors who have no fixed address can enrol under this category. You can apply to enrol for;

• where you were last eligible to be enrolled

• where one of your next of kin is enrolled

• where you were born

• where you have the closest connection.

You are not eligible to apply under this category if you are travelling around Australia but intend to return to your fixed address.

Additional information is provided on the first page of the form. You can also contact us for further information.

If your circumstances change and you establish a permanent place of living and live there for a period of more than one month, you must enrol as an ordinary elector.

Enrolment form for persons with no fixed address