More than 16m to have say

ALMOST 100,000 Australians have been added to the electoral roll ahead of the samesex marriage postal survey – two-thirds of whom are under 25 years old.

The Australian Electoral Commission said yesterday it had finished processing more than 933,000 transactions, most of which were changes to or updating information.

More than 16 million Australians are eligible to vote, with data now passed on to the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct the survey.

The postal vote will be sent out on September 12 and is not due back until November 7.