Senate disallows Voter ID on Enrolment !
In the early hours of May 15, 2002 the ALP and Democrats joined forces in the Senate to disallow the regulations for ID on Enrolment - see August 2002 Update - details of the regulations are shown below
Items 10, 11 and 12 of Schedule 1 of the Electoral and 
Referendum Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999...
provide that a person witnessing an enrolment application must be an elector in a prescribed class of persons; 
require that new electors are required to produce one original form of identification at the time of enrolment as prescribed; 
require applicants for enrolment who claim to be Australian citizens by grant to provide evidence of that grant as prescribed; and 
allow for the lodgement of enrolment forms with `agents' with receipt by the `agent' before the close of rolls being deemed as receipt by the AEC. 
The Electoral and Referendum Amendment Regulations 2001, which were made on 13 September 2001, set out the categories of prescribed witnesses, the acceptable forms of identification, the method of verifying citizenship and the `agents' with whom electoral enrolment forms may be lodged and be deemed to have been received by the AEC at the close of rolls. These regulations will not become effective until Proclamation of Items 10, 11 and 12 of Schedule 1 of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999.