| Printed electoral rolls were produced by Electoral Offices to assist in the
management of elections. An electoral roll is a listing of all those residents
eligible and registered to vote in a particular area. The register assists in
the voting process and helps to prevent electoral fraud. Electoral rolls may
also be used by the authorities for other purposes, such as to select people for
jury duty.
In the nineteenth century, the management of elections, often under a
restricted franchise, was undertaken by colonial authorities. From 1901, with
Federation, the Commonwealth Government gradually undertook the management of
the rolls for both State and Federal elections except for Western Australia.
Because enrolment was compulsory for all eligible voters (with the exception
of Norfolk Island) there is a strong likelihood that a person can be located.
Until the advent of widespread computers in 1985 which brought about the
publication of single lists on microfiche and hence the easy searching of
databases, researchers were somewhat restricted by the large number of name and
the arrangement of the rolls into Divisions (the Commonwealth term for and
electorate). Publishing scanned versions on searchable CDs overcomes these
significant barriers.
High quality scanned images of the whole of each volume of this year's
electoral books. This CD has
been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required. |
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