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Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 23, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voting continues in Queensland during the final week of early polling for the 2020 local government elections.<\/p>\n

Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young emphasised on Monday that it was \u201cperfectly safe\u201d to vote.<\/p>\n

Mr Hinchliffe said people who were well, not self-isolating and not in quarantine should vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, you can get go shopping, duck into the chemist, drop the kids off at school, get a haircut and pick up a takeaway meal as long as you take precautions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you can vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can, take advantage of the opportunity to vote early \u2013 it will mean fewer people and shorter queues on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d also like to thank all those employers who have encouraged their staff to go and vote early \u2013 it will make an enormous difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Young said voters who were healthy could vote early or on election day, March 28, and maintain the 1.5m distance between individuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone \u2026 absolutely go and vote, vote early this week \u2026 vote on Saturday \u2026 it\u2019s perfectly safe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally our voting process is a very social event \u2013 we have sausage sizzles, we have fetes, we have all sorts of things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not happening this time, so people just go straight in and vote and straight out \u2013 and the risk of doing that is absolutely minimal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I would ask that anyone who is sick to not attend, that\u2019s just common sense, and anyone who\u2019s in quarantine or isolation or is in one of those groups that we\u2019re concerned about, for them not to attend, and they should contact the Electoral Commission and manage that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Hinchliffe said voters had turned out in historic numbers, with more than 500,000 pre-polling and about 560,000 applications for postal votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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