The NSW Electoral Commission is pressing the state government to allow it to recycle unspent funding on “urgent” fixes to legacy systems, as it awaits money for a more costly overhaul.
After a $323 million funding bid was turned down last year, the commission has also warned that “broader improvements” to its existing systems will not be possible before at least 2031.
It comes just months after senior officials warned that the funding crunch would force the agency to “pare back” its systems, putting the state at heightened “risk of election delivery failure”.
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