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senate vote 2020-09-02#3
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020; Second Reading- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Description
<p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p><p>The question is that the bill be read a second time.</p> - The majority voted in favour of agreeing with the main idea of the bill. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to [read the bill for a second time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/). The bill will now be considered in greater detail.
- ### What is the bill's main idea?
- According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2021a/21bd011), the purpose of the bill was to implement a number of unrelated technical amendments, including to:
- * *clarify the operation of the public funding provisions where candidates for more than one party are in the same group on a Senate ballot paper (Senate groups)*
- * *replace the provisions relating to the interaction of state and federal political finance laws held to be invalid by the High Court of Australia in [Spence v Queensland](http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2019/15.html?context=1;query=2019%20hca%2015%20;mask_path=)*
- * *increase the flexibility of voting options to be offered to Australian voters in Antarctica and*
- * *introduce a number of technical amendments, some of which were previously proposed in the [Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2018](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6240) but removed prior to passage.*
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