70,000 Voters Removed From the Electoral Roll

About 70,000 local election enrolment packs have bounced back to Registrars of Electors marked ‘gone no address’.

The Electoral Commission mailed update packs to the 3.1 million people on the electoral roll at the start of July, to make sure everyone who’s eligible is correctly enrolled to vote in this year’s local elections.

“If you are one of the 70,000 or so voters whose pack has come back to us because you’ve moved house and not updated your enrolment details, you have been removed from the electoral roll, and won’t be able to vote unless you re-enrol,” says Murray Wicks, National Manager, Enrolment Services.

“Local elections are held by postal vote, so it’s really important that we get people enrolled at the correct address and ready to have their say,” says Mr Wicks.

“Getting back on the roll is easy - go online at elections.org.nz, freetext your name and address to 3676, call 0800 36 76 56 or go to any PostShop,” says Mr Wicks

People have until August 16 to enrol in time to receive their voting papers in the mail.

To put the number of people who have been removed from the roll in perspective:

• 70,000 is the total population of the New Plymouth district
• 70,000 people participated in the 2013 Ports of Auckland Round the Bays run
• 70,000 kiwi live in the wild in New Zealand
• 70,000 teachers work in New Zealand’s pre-schools and schools

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