The biggest peacetime logistical event in Australia takes places this Saturday with the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum.
People will be asked whether or not they support an alteration to the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. As the campaigning enters its final week, polling puts the No campaign in front of those who want the advisory body to be established.
Pat Callanan from the Australian Electoral Commission says the lead up to the referendum and what will take place on Saturday is a major undertaking. This is because at least 1.2 million people have applied for a postal vote and the AEC has to wait 13 days for all of those to arrive.“It's really hard to predict what's going to happen there, but I would say to people be prepared for there to potentially not be a result on the night. The reason why a lot of postal votes can potentially make the result or the count take a little bit longer is the fact that we have to wait 13 days by the law for all postal votes to come in.
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