NSW Premier Chris Minns has put private companies running council elections on notice that they could be outlawed, saying reports of three-hour delays at last Saturday’s poll were unacceptable.
Australian Election Company was engaged by Fairfield and Liverpool councils in Sydney’s south-west, with Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun citing the cost of NSW Electoral Commission-run elections and waiting times during the pandemic-delayed 2021 vote as the reason for the decision. Chris Minns, Health Minister Ryan Park and member for Leppington Nathan Hagarty at Liverpool Hospital.Carbone said Minns was forgetting the NSW Electoral Commission’s failures, including a recount of results in several council areas in 2022 after a mishap with the agency’s voting software.