{"id":906,"date":"2012-04-12T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=906"},"modified":"2013-03-25T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:42:53","slug":"pre-poll-voting-for-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/04\/12\/pre-poll-voting-for-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Poll Voting For Council Opens Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 12, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pre-poll voting for the 2012 Local Government elections opens on Monday (April 16).<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the South Burnett Regional Council area will be able to pre-poll vote at the Council offices in Blackbutt, Nanango, Kingaroy, Wondai and Murgon from 9:30am-4:30pm, Monday to Friday (closed Anzac Day, April 25).<\/p>\n<p>On April 27, the eve of election day, the pre-poll voting offices will be open from 9:30am-6:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Division 2 (Blackbutt, Maidenwell, Bunya Mountains), Division 3 (Kingaroy, south of Haly Street) or Division 5 (Murgon) you DON\u2019T have to vote. This is because there is only one person standing in each of these divisions so they will be elected unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>However voters in Division 1 (four candidates),  Division 4 (two candidates) and Division 6 (two candidates) MUST vote. Voting is compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>To check out what Division you live in, see this handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4036\" target=\"_blank\"><b>interactive map<\/b><\/a> on the ECQ website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-poll voting for the 2012 Local Government elections opens on Monday (April 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pre-Poll Voting For Council Opens Monday - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/04\/12\/pre-poll-voting-for-council\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pre-Poll Voting For Council Opens Monday - 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