Just a heads up to the Queenslanders, i have just gone into vote as I didn't want to stand in line on Saturday with thousands of people.
No hand sanitizer at the door and everyone is using the same pencil.
When I voted in Townsville Thursday morning, they had 4 lines (very large building internally) approaching the registration desks to collect your voting papers, (eight desks, 2 for each line, all with over 2 m separation), they had over 2m separation in all directions between the voters in the lines (lines on the floor with directions prominently displayed) and the same at the voting booths and the ballot boxes, everybody was handed their own pencil when in the line, by a person wearing gloves and a mask, all pencils were put in a container when you exited. Two staff were then wiping down all the pencils with sanitiser and bleach.
Once you were checked off on the electoral roll, both voting slips were printed out from printers on the desks, one printer for each registration point, you then picked up the voting papers yourself, the voting papers coming out of the printer vertically so didn't touch any equipment, so no physical contact between you and any staff in the building.
I felt that all the required precautions were being observed when I was there, so I was reasonably satisfied with the safety aspects
