Government unsure if marriage survey will exclude 100,000 voters, rules out 16-year-olds loophole

By Michael Koziol, Michaela Whitbourn
Updated August 11 2017 - 6:33pm, first published 6:17pm
The unprecedented national survey has caused a few headaches for the government and the ABS. Photo: Edwina Pickles
The unprecedented national survey has caused a few headaches for the government and the ABS. Photo: Edwina Pickles

The Turnbull government was scrambling on Friday afternoon to determine whether a loophole in its same-sex marriage survey would disenfranchise about 113,000 "silent electors".

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