The Commission said the incident was an increase from the 19 multiple votes from the 2010 federal election.
Addressing Senate Estimates yesterday, Acting Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said the incident had not impacted on the outcome of the election.
"AEC analysis indicates that levels of multiple voting have not had an impact on declared outcomes," he said.
"But in some ways this misses the point: multi-voting contravenes the universally accepted standard of ‘one person, one vote’. "
He said 2013 voters had admitted to voting multiple times, while a further 6086 could not adequately explain their multiple votes.
He said the Commission will meet with the Australian Federal Police over the incident next week.
Three voters told the Commission they were intoxicated at the time, while others admitted that they were "testing the system".
One voter cast 15 votes.
Other reasons cited included confusion or late postal votes.
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