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Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Today is International Day of #Democracy!
We’re celebrating the people behind the operation in 2022 - the 105,000 temporary employees & our permanent AEC team.
Together, we held a national election with a variety of voting options including 500+ early voting centres, 7,000+ polling places as well as postal voting, telephone voting & remote voting.
The impact of the pandemic also added complexity to conducting what is already Australia’s largest peacetime logistical exercise, with 63,000L of hand sanitiser & 34,000 bottles of surface cleaner to ensure voters & staff we’re safe & could have confidence voting in person.
We’re dedicated to the integrity of the vote, with an election that was undertaken with secure counting & trusted results. This election could only happen because of the many Australians that put their hands up to help deliver it.

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