# Verification record — `au/aec/voter-enrolment` v1.0.0 This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-02` `draft`, not `verified`, because the live online enrolment wizard (`enrol.aec.gov.au`) could not be reached from this environment — see "What was not done" below. This schema is instead sourced directly from the AEC's own downloadable, fillable PDF enrolment form, decoded field-by-field. ## Sources examined - **Document `(id, version)`:** `au/aec/voter-enrolment` / `1.0.0` - **Spec version:** GovSchema `0.3.0` - **Authority:** Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), administering the Commonwealth electoral roll under the *Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918*, used jointly with state/territory electoral authorities under Joint Roll Arrangements. - **`https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/`** — "Enrol to vote". Fetched live via `WebFetch`, 2026-07-02 (HTTP 200). Supplies the top-level eligibility statement (Australian citizen, 18+, lived at the address at least one month; 16-17 year-olds may enrol early), the accepted identity-document list (driver's licence, passport, Medicare, citizenship certificate, or person-confirms-identity), and the existence of separate special-category enrolment forms (silent elector, overseas, no-fixed-address, etc.). - **`https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/form.htm`** — "I need a paper or PDF enrolment form". Fetched live (HTTP 200), 2026-07-02. Supplies the direct per-state/territory PDF download URLs for form ER016w. - **`https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/files/er016w-nsw.pdf?v=1.0`** — form ER016w, NSW edition (`ER016w_NSW_230123`), the **primary field-level source** for this document. Downloaded directly via `curl` (HTTP 200, 1,019,854 bytes), 2026-07-02. This is a fillable AcroForm PDF; its field names and static label text were extracted directly from the file's compressed content and object streams (`zlib`-inflating every `stream…endstream` block, then regex-matching `/T(fieldName)` AcroForm field-name declarations and parenthesised text-showing operators), the same technique used for other glyph/stream-encoded government PDFs in this registry. This yielded 79 named form fields plus their surrounding label text (section headers "1 Your current name" … "6 Evidence of your identity", the citizenship-status and evidence-of-identity branch option labels, and the closing declaration text), quoted directly into each field's `sourceRef` above. - **`https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/files/er016w-vic.pdf?v=1.1`** — form ER016w, Victoria edition. Downloaded and decoded the same way, 2026-07-02, **specifically to cross-check that the NSW edition's fields reflect the nationally-standardised Commonwealth form** rather than a NSW-only variant. Result: 78 of 79 AcroForm field names are byte-identical between the two editions. The one difference — a `2Occupation` field present in the NSW edition and absent from the Victoria edition — is **excluded** from this schema for that reason (see "Modelling decisions" below). - **`https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/enrolment.htm`** — "Enrolment — frequently asked questions". Fetched live (HTTP 200), 2026-07-02. Corroborated the identity-document list; did not add field-level detail beyond the PDF. ## What was not done — the one honest gap Unlike `de/finanzamt/tax-identification-number` (verified by directly operating BZSt's unauthenticated live form with Playwright), **no live walkthrough of the online enrolment wizard at `enrol.aec.gov.au` was performed.** A direct fetch of that host failed at DNS resolution (`getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND enrol.aec.gov.au`) from this environment — the same class of network block previously encountered at `nzta.govt.nz` (see the GB/DMV vertical's verification history), not an authentication wall as with `nz/dia/realme-verified-identity`. Consequently, this schema's field inventory is derived from the AEC's own **downloadable PDF enrolment form** rather than the live online form. The AEC's own site states the online and paper channels collect the same information ("You can complete this form online today at www.aec.gov.au"), and the two-state cross-check above (NSW vs. Victoria) gives confidence the PDF's fields reflect the nationally-standardised Commonwealth form, not a state-specific artifact — but this is one sourcing grain below a direct field-by-field comparison against the live wizard itself (no confirmation of on-screen field ordering within a step, client-side validation masks, or whether the online flow presents any field the paper form does not). `status` stays `draft`; re-verify by live walkthrough if `enrol.aec.gov.au` becomes reachable, or by a third state/territory PDF cross-check otherwise. ## Modelling decisions - **Comb-style digit-box dates and numbers collapsed to one field each.** The source form renders `dateOfBirth` (§2), `medicareCardNumber`, `medicareCardValidTo`, and `personConfirmingDateOfBirth` (all §6) as sequences of single-character AcroForm boxes (e.g. `2DOB_D`, `2DOB_DD`, … `2DOB_YYYY`; `6MedicareNumber1`…`6MedicareNumber10`). Each sequence is modelled as one logical field, consistent with this registry's existing comb-field convention (e.g. `nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult`). - **`occupation` excluded.** The NSW edition of the form has a `2Occupation` field; the Victoria edition of the same form, decoded the same way, does not. Since this document models the nationally-administered AEC process (not a NSW-specific one) and the two editions otherwise agree on every other field name, `occupation` is treated as a NSW-specific addition and left out rather than asserted as a national requirement. Worth re-examining if a future review finds it is in fact collected online nationally. - **`nameChanged`, `addressChanged`, and `postalAddressDifferentFromResidential` are inferred gating booleans, not named form fields.** The paper form has no literal yes/no tick-box for any of these three — the previous-name box, previous-address box, and postal-address box are each simply left blank when not applicable — but GovSchema's `visibleWhen`/`requiredWhen` grammar needs a field to condition on, so each conditional group is given an explicit boolean gate rather than being modelled as unconditionally-optional flat fields. This mirrors how `nz/dia/realme-verified-identity` models DIA's referee step, which is also determination-driven rather than a printed tick-box. - **`citizenshipStatus` as a three-way enum, not two separate boolean branches.** The form prints "Australian citizen by birth" and "I have become an Australian citizen" as the two Australian-citizen options and "British subject who was enrolled on 25 January 1984" as a third, separately-boxed option; modelled as one mutually-exclusive enum plus per-branch conditional fields (`nameOnCitizenshipCertificate` + `citizenshipCertificateNumber` for the naturalised-citizen branch; `townOfBirth` + `birthState` + `countryOfBirth` for the citizen-by-birth branch; `britishSubjectName` + `britishSubjectCountryOfBirth` for the British-subject branch), following the field-name grouping in the extracted AcroForm data (`5NameOnCitizenshipCertificate`, `5CitizenshipCertificateNumber` vs. `5TownOfBirth`, `5BirthState`, `5CountryofBirth` vs. `5BritishSubjectName`, `5BritishSubjectCountryofBirth`). - **`citizenshipCertificateNumber`'s identity-evidence exemption is documented in prose, not encoded as a condition.** The form states that supplying a citizenship certificate number at Question 5 exempts the applicant from Question 6 (`evidenceOfIdentity`) entirely. `evidenceOfIdentity` remains `required: true` unconditionally in this schema because the exemption is a business rule about a field *elsewhere* being populated, not a `visibleWhen`/`requiredWhen` branch on `evidenceOfIdentity`'s own antecedent field (`citizenshipStatus`) — the exemption applies only to one specific sub-case (having entered a certificate *number*, not merely having chosen the `became_australian_citizen` branch) and GSP-0013's condition grammar has no clean way to express "field X is required unless field Y is non-empty" against a field from an earlier, independent step. Documented in `citizenshipCertificateNumber`'s own description instead, in keeping with this registry's practice of naming a rule in prose rather than forcing an imprecise encoding. - **`gender` modelled as an unconstrained one-character string, not a closed enum.** The AcroForm field definition confirms `MaxLen 1`, but the source form prints no on-page code list. The AEC publicly records `M`, `F`, or `X` on the electoral roll, but asserting that as a schema-level `enum` would go beyond what this specific form actually prints — the same discipline `nz/dia/realme-verified-identity` used for its own `gender` field. - **`personConfirmingDateOfBirth` — flagged interpretive call.** See the field's own `description`: this schema's best reading, based on its AcroForm field name (`6DateOfBirth*`, distinct from the applicant's own `2DOB_*` fields) and its position alongside the confirming person's name/address box, is that it collects the *confirming person's* date of birth. The static-PDF text extraction technique used here recovers parenthesised text-showing strings but not guaranteed visual reading order, so this reading is named as an inference rather than asserted with full confidence — a future review with direct visual access to the rendered PDF page should confirm or correct it. - **No `documents[]` member.** Enrolment carries no fee (confirmed by `aec.gov.au/enrol/` describing enrolment as a citizen obligation with no charge), and no file upload is modelled — the online channel accepts identity-document *numbers*, not uploaded scans, matching how this registry omits `documents[]` when a process only asks for reference numbers rather than attached files. - **No signature/file field for the declaration.** `declarationAndConsent` is modelled as a single boolean, consistent with how this registry treats a final consent-to-terms action elsewhere (e.g. `nz/dia/realme-verified-identity`'s `agreesToTermsOfUse`), rather than a scanned-signature file field — the AEC's own site states the form can be completed fully online, where a wet signature is not the applicable mechanism. ## Out of scope - **Special-category enrolment** — silent elector, overseas elector, itinerant/no-fixed-address elector, prisoner, or a declarant physically unable to sign — each uses a distinct AEC form not examined here. A candidate for future, separate schemas if this vertical is revisited. - **16-/17-year-old early enrolment mechanics beyond the fields already modelled** — the AEC allows enrolment from age 16 with voting deferred to 18; this schema does not add an age-branch beyond the citizenship/identity fields already collected, since the source form does not print a separate under-18 field set. - **Roll removal, objection, and non-enrolment penalty processes** — distinct AEC/Commonwealth processes, not modelled here. ## Re-verification Per the practice's cadence, `nextReviewBy` is set to **2027-01-02** (6 months). Re-check the NSW PDF's `v=` query parameter for a version bump, and attempt `enrol.aec.gov.au` again in case the network block has lifted; if reachable, re-verify by direct wizard walkthrough and promote `status` to `verified`, per `de/finanzamt/tax-identification-number`'s precedent.