The fairness of laws governing when people can enrol to vote will be challenged in the High Court today.
Advocacy group GetUp! is behind the challenge, and wants the court to rule on the constitutional validity of changes made to the Electoral Act by the previous Howard government.
Before the changes, electoral rolls were kept open for seven days from the time the writs for an election were issued.
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But unregistered Australians had only one working day to get their names on the electoral rolls following Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement of an election on July 17.
GetUp has said that as many as 100,000 Australians could have been prevented from enrolling for the poll before the rolls closed on July 19.
The case will be heard in Canberra just 17 days before Australia goes to the polls on August 21.
