SATURDAY’S election will commence at 8am with polling booths open until 6pm for everyone to cast their vote. Voting is compulsory, and local polling booths at Inverell will be located at Ross Hill Public School, the Town Hall and Inverell Public School.
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In Ashford you can cast your vote at Ashford Central School Memorial Hall, in Delungra, polling will take place at the Community Hall and at Tingha there will be a polling booth at the Tingha Public School.
Polling booths can also be found at the Bundarra Central School, the Warialda Town Hall and the Roxy Theatre in Bingara.
Pre-poll voting at Inverell seemed to reach its crescendo on Friday morning, with a great deal of activity around the Evans Street entrance of the Town Hall that resulted in a steady flow of the how to vote pamphlets being handed out.
Greens candidate Mercurius Goldstein was there for a while to distribute his own how-to-vote guide, and said that in his opinion the iVote component of this election could be significant.
“I think it will have a big influence, and it will raise some interesting challenges,” Mr Goldstein said.
He said in his opinion the campaign for Northern Tablelands had been positive and about policies, not personalities.
"This has been a very positive and constructive campaign in the Northern Tablelands where the discussion has been focused on policies not personalities, and I think voters appreciate that.
"Whoever emerges as our representative on Sunday, they're going to get a very complex and nuanced reading from the electorate from a range of directions and they're going to have a lot of thinking to do about how to represent all those different streams within the electorate."
Mr Goldstein said he wanted to demonstrate that the Greens are in Northern Tablelands and we're here to stay.
"A strong Greens vote will show the victor, whoever that is, that voters want to save TAFE, to protect farms from CSG and to create local jobs in renewable energy."
With this year’s electoral redistribution, Moree will enter the electorate of Northern Tablelands for the first time. All the candidates have decided to start Election Day in Moree, and travel eastwards during the day, except Labor’s Debra O’Brien, who will stay there for the day.
“It’s my home town,” she explained.
While all parties see vote to be gained from Moree, it is also the most western town in the electorate and, geographically, a convenient place to start the day.
Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall said he would work his way east to get around as many polling booths as possible. He will probably be in Inverell at about noon.
Independent candidate David Mailler - part of the newly-formed Country Party - said he was comfortable and relaxed ahead of the election.
"I'm not under any grand illusions about what the result will be," he said.
"We've shaken the tree, which is what we set out to do. Tomorrow, I guess we'll see just how vigorous that shaking was."
Mr Mailler said he would spend most of his day in Bingara, and had already put in his pre-poll vote.
He said he could see he was going to be so busy, and laughed as he said it would be disastrous if he forgot to vote.