Queensland Silent Elector Record

Records that identify a silent elector: completed AEC silent elector registrations (form ER022ESw_QLD, used for Queensland enrolment under the joint roll arrangement), silent elector registers, roll entries flagged silent, silent enrolment confirmations and special postal voter register entries for silent electors. A silent elector is a person whose address the Electoral Commission of Queensland has kept off the public roll because showing it would put the personal safety of the person or their family at risk (Electoral Act 1992 s 58(5) and sch 1; Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 s 104, backed by a statutory declaration). Silent electors are automatically special postal voters (s 114(2)(b)), and council voters rolls must omit their address (LGEA s 19(2)). Nomination form guidance, fact sheets, AEC guidance, blank forms, legislation and news are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: "silent elector" is a specific statutory term, but it appears in every ECQ candidate nomination form, fact sheet and AEC guidance page, so enforce tiers need a populated name field plus a district, address or DOB, and nomination and fact-sheet wording is excluded. The exact silent marker or column in ECQ internal extracts is not published, so roll-extract rows flagged "S" without the words "silent elector" are not detected. 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), Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 10
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:silent\s+electors?|silent\s+enrol(?:l)?ment|registration\s+as\s+a\s+silent\s+elector|ER022ESw_[A-Z]{2,3}(?:_\d{6})?|(?:residential\s+)?address\s+shown\s+on\s+(?:any|the\s+publicly\s+available)\s+(?:electoral\s+)?roll\s+places\s+the\s+personal\s+safety)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

enrolled, enrolment, roll, special postal voter, personal safety, statutory declaration, AEC, ECQ, division, district

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Registration as a silent elector and/or enrolment in Queensland (ER022ESw_QLD_081024) Family name: Teston Given name(s): Avery James Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy): 12/03/1981 Current residential address: 14 Wattlebird Street, Stafford QLD 4053 I declare that having my residential address shown on any electoral roll places the personal safety of myself or members of my family at risk. — Completed ER022 silent elector registration with DOB and residential address (85 tier)
Register of special postal voters - Stafford district Elector: Morgan Teston Category: silent elector Ballot material posted to: 27 Carrington Avenue, Stafford QLD 4053 Date of birth: 04/07/1990 — Special postal voter register entry for a silent elector with address and DOB (85 tier)
Silent enrolment confirmation Elector name: Casey Teston DOB: 09/09/1999 Division: Rankin Your address will not appear on the publicly available roll. — Silent enrolment confirmation with name and DOB, no address (85 tier)
Roll entry - silent elector (address not shown) Name: Riley Staffson Electoral district: Stafford — Name and district only (75 tier, SENSITIVE Electoral Roll sensitivity)
Council voters roll - silent electors, addresses omitted under LGEA s 19(2) Elector: Jordan Teston Division: Division 3 — Council voters roll silent elector entry with name and division (75 tier)

Should not match

Form 006 SG Nomination of candidate - candidate details (as enrolled) Surname: Teston Given name: Avery Occupation: Pharmacist Date of birth: 12/03/1981 Enrolled address: 14 Wattlebird Street, Stafford QLD 4053 If you are enrolled as a silent elector, please do not insert your address details here. — Completed nomination form; the silent elector sentence is form boilerplate (nomination exclusion)
Nomination of candidate Surname: __________ Given name: __________ Enrolled address: __________ If you are enrolled as a silent elector, please do not insert your address details here. — Blank nomination form guidance
Local Government Fact Sheet 04. Candidates receive the voters roll with the names and addresses of electors after nominations close. The addresses of silent electors are not released. After the election, information about silent electors is not released either. — LG fact sheet 04 text
If you register as a silent elector, only your name and the name of your division will appear on the electoral rolls. You must give a statutory declaration explaining the risk to your personal safety. — AEC silent elector guidance
More than 150,000 Australians are now registered as silent electors, whose addresses are kept off the public roll to protect their personal safety, the AEC said on Tuesday. — Public news report
Registration as a silent elector (ER022ESw_QLD) Family name: ________ Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy): __/__/____ Current residential address: ________ Return to silent@aec.gov.au or AEC, Reply Paid 9867, Brisbane QLD 4001 — Blank ER022 form
Electoral Act 1992 s 133A(5): The commission must not give elector information about a silent elector. — Legislation text

Known false positives

Candidate nomination forms (ECQ Form 005 / 006) carry the instruction "If you are enrolled as a silent elector, please do not insert your address details here" next to populated candidate details. Mitigation: The nomination instruction is an enforce-tier exclusion, so completed nomination forms do not fire. A silent-elector candidate's nomination is left to the candidate nomination classifier.
Fact sheets, AEC and ECQ guidance, legislation and news mention silent electors without a populated record. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated name field plus district, address or DOB; fact sheet, FAQ, legislation-site and "not released" wording is excluded.
Overlap with au-dfv-confidential-address, which also treats "silent elector" and the ER022 declaration as a confidential-address anchor and fires at 75/85 when a street address (and person field) is present. Mitigation: The two are complementary. A silent elector record with an address fires both, at PROTECTED (this one PROTECTED Electoral Roll, the DFV one PROTECTED Personal-Privacy); an organisation deploying both should let the electoral policy take precedence for roll-derived records. This classifier adds the name-plus-district and name-plus-DOB records (no address) that the DFV classifier does not detect, plus the ER022 form code and silent enrolment wording. Use this one for electoral-roll policies and the DFV one for cross-sector confidential-address policies; do not stack both in one rule if match counts matter.
Roll extracts that flag silent electors only with a code or column (for example "S") and no "silent elector" wording. Mitigation: Not detected; the ECQ internal marker is unpublished. au-qld-electoral-roll-extract still detects the extract.