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Polling teams working across SA to make sure 'every person has the opportunity to vote'

If you're frustrated by long queues and pushy party volunteers on election day, spare a thought for the thousands of South Australians who live hundreds of kilometres from the nearest polling booth.

The Electoral Commission of South Australia has been trying to lift voter turnouts in Indigenous communities, which are traditionally lower than urban areas.

Using a combination of Aboriginal electoral officers, mobile polling booths, language skills and a bit of football star power, turnouts at this election are up by at least 25 per cent.

"We have seven remote polling teams going to 29 locations stretching from Ceduna, right up to the APY Lands, across to the Riverland and down to the South East," electoral commissioner Mick Sherry said.

"Our view is, irrespective of whether you're living in Mt Gambier, Adelaide or the APY Lands, we want to make sure every person has the opportunity to vote, and that's why we're here today."

Aboriginal Information officer Inawantji Scales has been assisting voters, who are either casting their ballot for the first time or don't speak English as their first language.

"We've been helping the polling booth team, with interpreting cultural and sensitive things they need to be aware of, and just explaining what it's all about," she said.

"Each place we've been, the numbers are really high, and that's a really good outcome.

"It's very important for the Anangu [people] to have their say."

AFL legends Gavin Wanganeen and Michael O'Loughlin joined the efforts to rock the vote in Pukatja with a football clinic, where 200 people have cast their ballots in a makeshift booth at the local store.

"This is like aspiring to be an AFL player," O'Loughlin said.

"Gav and I watched our uncles play, we saw more Aboriginal people on television playing footy at the elite level, so it's a bit like today — the kids see the elders vote, their mothers and fathers come in and vote, so it already plants that seed in their mind.

"Hopefully some of these young fellas will turn into community leaders."

SA Labor was the only party represented at the booth in Pukatja, with signs and flyers in both English and Pitjantjatjara.

It normally polls well in Indigenous communities, and that could be especially useful as Labor fights to keep the sprawling seat of Giles from falling to Nick Xenophon's SA Best.

The ABC travelled to the APY Lands with the Electoral Commission of SA.

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