Queensland Apparent Non-Voter Notice, Response or Infringement Record

Elector-level records from ECQ's compulsory voting enforcement process: apparent failure to vote notices issued after a State or local government election (Electoral Act 1992 (Qld) s 134), elector responses giving a valid and sufficient reason for not voting or saying that they did vote and giving the details, payment records (s 135), infringement notices for failing to vote (s 186; LGEA 2011 ss 165, 166, 168), and referrals of unpaid notices to the State Penalties Enforcement Registry (SPER). ECQ's published process is apparent failure to vote notice, then infringement notice, then SPER referral. Excuses often disclose health conditions, hospital admissions, disability, bereavement, travel, religious duty (s 186(2)) or family circumstances. The "Do I have to vote?" page, penalty unit value statements, aggregate non-voter statistics and blank response forms are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium. Failure-to-vote wording is distinctive to compulsory voting enforcement, but ECQ and AEC guidance, penalty statements and annual reports use the same phrases, so enforce tiers need a populated elector name plus a notice number, excuse, payment or address field. The ECQ notice number format is unpublished, so the notice number is the registry's label-anchored infringement-notice-number fallback. The "Apparent Failure to Vote" notice title and the response wording come from the ECQ "Do I have to vote?" page. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy. Test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Electoral Act 1992 (Qld), Local Government Electoral Act 2011 (Qld), State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, government, law-enforcement
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 6
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:apparent\s+failure\s+to\s+vote|fail(?:ure|ed|ing)\s+to\s+vote|non-?voters?|valid\s+and\s+sufficient\s+(?:reason|excuse)|(?:reason|excuse)\s+for\s+not\s+voting)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

apparent failure to vote, infringement notice, SPER, valid and sufficient reason, polling day, elector, Electoral Commission of Queensland

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Apparent Failure to Vote Notice - 2026 Queensland State election Notice number: 2026417733 Elector: Harper Teston Address: 31 Lorikeet Street, Townsville QLD 4810 Reason for not voting: admitted to hospital on polling day with a fractured hip Outcome: valid and sufficient reason accepted — Notice and response with a health-related excuse (85 tier)
Infringement notice - failure to vote, 2024 local government elections Infringement notice number: 7004418219 Name: Jordan Teston Amount payable: $161.30 Due date: 14/11/2024 Status: unpaid, referred to SPER — Failure-to-vote infringement notice with payment details and SPER referral (85 tier)
Non-voter response received by email. Elector: Casey Teston I did vote: voted at Kenmore State School polling booth on election day — Elector response saying they did vote, no notice number (75 tier)
Apparent failure to vote notice returned to sender. Name: Riley Teston Address: 7 Grevillea Crescent, Bundaberg QLD 4670 — Returned notice with elector name and address (75 tier)

Should not match

Do I have to vote? Voting is compulsory for enrolled Queensland electors. If you did not vote you will receive an apparent failure to vote notice. You can provide a valid and sufficient reason for not voting, or tell us that you did vote and provide the details. Unpaid fines are referred to SPER. — ECQ "Do I have to vote?" page text (65 only)
The penalty for failing to vote is 1 penalty unit, which is $172.70 from 1 July 2026. Half the penalty applies if it is paid by the due date. — Penalty unit value statement (65 only)
Non-voter statistics: 312,448 apparent failure to vote notices were issued after the 2024 State election and 41,902 electors provided a valid and sufficient reason. — Aggregate non-voter statistics (65 only)
Apparent failure to vote - response form Elector name: ______________ Notice number: ______________ Reason for not voting: ______________ — Blank response form (65 only)
186 Failure to vote etc. (1) An elector must vote at each election for the electoral district for which the elector is enrolled unless the elector has a valid and sufficient reason for not voting. — Electoral Act s 186 text (65 only)

Known false positives

ECQ and AEC compulsory voting guidance, payment pages and annual reports. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated elector name plus a notice number, excuse, payment or address field. A guidance exclusion suppresses "Do I have to vote", FAQ, fact sheet, penalty unit value and annual report text.
Council local law infringement notices and other SPER referrals. Mitigation: They lack failure-to-vote wording, so this classifier does not fire. The reverse overlap exists; see risk_description.
Blank notice and response forms. Mitigation: Blank lines and bracket placeholders are rejected, and the notice number must contain a digit.