Time’s Almost up to Enrol for Northland by-Election

If you want to vote in the Northland by-election and you’re not enrolled, time is running out. That’s the message from Northland Registrar of Electors Deborah Darton, with just a few days to go until the by-election this Saturday, 28 March.

“Everyone enrolled in the Northland general electorate should have received their EasyVote packs in the mail by now,” she says. “If your EasyVote pack hasn’t turned up in your letterbox, you need to enrol or update your details now. Remember, only those enrolled on the general roll in the Northland electorate can vote in the by-election.”

It’s easy to enrol or update your enrolment details. Enrolment forms are available at all advance voting places and PostShops, and can also be completed online to print and return.

“But you do need to hurry,” says Ms Darton. “You must be enrolled by this Friday, 27 March. You cannot enrol on election day.”

To be eligible to enrol in the Northland electorate you must:

• Be 18 years of age or over; and

• Be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident who has lived in New Zealand continuously for 12 months at some time; and

• Have been living in the Northland electorate for one month or more.

“If you are Māori, and enrolling for the first time, you can choose whether you go on the Māori roll or the General roll,” says Ms Darton. “If you enrol now and choose the Māori roll, you will be in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate and won’t be able to vote in this by-election. If you enrol now and choose the General roll for the Northland electorate, you will be able to vote in this by-election. The roll you choose now will be the roll you are on for the next general election. Whichever roll you choose, you will be unable to change roll types until the next Māori Electoral Option which is scheduled for 2018.”

More information about enrolling to vote is available at www.elections.org.nz.

TE WĀ WHAKAMUTUNGA KI TE RĒHITA MŌ TE PŌTITANGA MOTUHAKE O NORTHLAND

Mēnā kei te hiahia koe ki te pōti i te pōtitanga motuhake o Northland ka mutu kāore koe i te rēhita, kei te pau haere te wā. Koinei te kōrero a te Kairēhita Kaipōti o Northland a Deborah Darton, ā, kei te tata haere mai te wā ki te pōtitanga motuhake hei te Rāhoroi, te 28 o Poutūterangi.

"Ko te tikanga kua tae atu ngā mōkihi PōtiNgāwari ki ngā tāngata katoa kua rēhita mō te pōtitanga motuhake o Northland," tana kī. "Mēnā kāore anō tō mōkihi PōtiNgāwari kia tae atu ki tō poukamēra, me rēhita koe, me whakahou rānei koe i ō taipitopito ināianei. Kia maumahara, ko te hunga anake e rēhita ana ki te rārangi whānui i te rohe pōti o Northland e āhei ana ki te pōti i te pōtitanga motuhake."

He māmā te rēhita, te whakahou rānei i ō taipitopito rēhita. E wātea ana ngā puka whakauru katoa i ngā wāhi pōti tōmua katoa me ngā PostShop, ā, ka taea anō te whakakī tuihono ka tā me te whakahoki.

"Engari me hohoro koe," te kī a Ms Darton. "Me mātua rēhita koe i mua o tēnei Paraire, te 27 o Poutūterangi. Kāore koe e āhei te rēhita hei te rā pōti."

Mō te āhei mai ki te rēhita ki te rohe pōti o Northland me mātua:

• Eke o tau ki te 18, neke atu rānei; me

• Kirirarau, kainoho tūturu rānei koe nō Aotearoa kua 12 marama tō noho ki Aotearoa i tētahi wā; me

• Te noho ki te rohe pōti o Northland mō te kotahi marama, neke atu rānei.

"Mēnā he Māori koe, ka mutu kei te rēhita koe mō te wā tuatahi, ka taea e koe te whiriwhiri mēnā ka eke atu koe ki te rārangi Māori, te rārangi Whānui rānei," hei tā Ms Darton. "Ki te rēhita koe ināianei ka mutu ka kōwhiri koe i te rārangi Māori, ka uru koe ki te rārangi pōti o Te Tai Tokerau, ā, kāore koe e āhei ki te pōti i tēnei pōtitanga-motuhake. Ki te rēhita koe ināianei me te kōwhiri i te rārangi Whānui mō te rohe pōti o Northland, ka āhei koe ki te pōti i tēnei pōtitanga motuhake. Ko te rārangi ka kōwhiria e koe ināianei koinā tō rārangi pōti i te pōtitanga whānui e whai ake. Ahakoa te rārangi ka pōti koe, kāore koe e taea te huri i tō momo rārangi pōti kia eke anō ai te Kōwhiringa Pōti Māori whai ake hei te tau 2018."

E wātea ana he mōhiohio atu anō i www.elections.org.nz.

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