UP TO 60,000 homeless people across Australia could be excluded from voting at this year’s federal election — a number larger than some electorates. A survey by Hanover Welfare Services of 208 homeless people in Melbourne found that 60 per cent of eligible people did not vote at last year’s state election, the vast majority because they were not enrolled. Extrapolated across the homeless population of about 100,000 people, it is estimated that 60,000 could be without a voice on polling day.
