Woman Who died in February fined $117 for not voting in March by Electoral Commission

Queensland nurse has
been fined $117 by the electoral commission for
failing to vote, despite passing away a month
before the election.
Wendy Scarce, 66, lost her battle with cancer in
February this year, with her son Dale by her
bedside.
Mr Scarce, who lives at his mother’s home in
Worongary on the Gold Coast, said he first
received an ‘apparent failure to vote’ notice after
the Gold Coast City Council elections in March.
The 27-year-old said he received a second letter
recently with the fine, and believes the
commission needs “an update from the stone
age”.
“It’s hard enough to come to terms with losing my
mother. I still expect to come home one day from
work and have a hot meal on the table for me and
to have her back,” he told the Daily Mail Australia.
“It’s been financially draining to pay for my
mother’s funeral and organise everything, and now
to get two letters about my mother not voting
when she passed away before the election.”
Mrs Scarce had previously beaten cancer and had
been in remission for a decade before she was re-
diagnosed at the end of last year.