What happens to the election if the voting booth administrator fails to give notice within three days, or if he gives notice for one time but actually opens the voting booth at another?
I don't think that is the Justice's point - he wants to know what the consequences for breach are.
Say the Secretary gives notice that the election will start at 1600 on Thursday, but unfortunately gets stuck in traffic and ends up opening the booth on 1700 Thursday. Then at the end of the election somebody loses and then sues the SoFA.
What does the Court do in this circumstance? This came up in a similar way when Ernest closed the booth early in the D1 special a while back and Mike Assad began to sue the SoFA but pulled out.
What does this Senate intend that the Court do? Does it intend that the SoFA simply get a slap on the wrist with no other consequences, does it intend that the entire election be done over, does it intend that the Secretary have a
closed session with Justice Emsworth and myself? What exactly is it that the Senate's intention for when at some point this inevitably doesn't quite work to standard.
Also, there is no human reason why the Secretary should have to give as much as a week's notice of the opening time of the election. The Amendment was passed to give the Secretary some flexibility, not to make him fix his diary a whole 10 days in advance. Notice is certainly needed, but an absolute requirement of full notice seven days in advance is overkill.
This however does not mean that the Secretary cannot begin to give provisional notice many days in advance, but only giving final notice two or three days in advance.
