TVC E. A 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.
