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

By Michael Koziol and Michaela Whitbourn
Updated August 12 2017 - 1:03pm, first published 12:52pm
Greens Senator Janet Rice with MP Alex Greenwich and Human Rights Law Centre lawyer Anna Brown outside the Law Courts in Sydney where they have lodged a case against the federal government regarding same-sex marriage. Photo: James Alcock
Greens Senator Janet Rice with MP Alex Greenwich and Human Rights Law Centre lawyer Anna Brown outside the Law Courts in Sydney where they have lodged a case against the federal government regarding same-sex marriage. Photo: James Alcock

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".