{"id":16738,"date":"2022-05-20T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16738"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:27:46","slug":"eligibility-criteria-for-covid-affected-secure-telephone-voting-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/20\/eligibility-criteria-for-covid-affected-secure-telephone-voting-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility criteria for COVID affected secure telephone voting expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Government, in consultation with the Federal Opposition, has immediately acted on advice provided by the AEC this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any voter who has tested positive for COVID-19 after 6pm Friday 13th May will be able to access the Secure Telephone Voting service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important that every Australian who is enrolled and entitled to vote, be able to exercise their democratic right and this change ensures that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government, in consultation with the Federal Opposition, has immediately acted on advice provided by the AEC this morning. Any voter who has tested positive for COVID-19 after 6pm Friday 13th May will be able to access the Secure Telephone Voting service. It is important that every Australian who is enrolled and entitled to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/20\/eligibility-criteria-for-covid-affected-secure-telephone-voting-expanded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eligibility criteria for COVID affected secure telephone voting expanded&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16739,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}