Advance voting in Botany
Advance voting in the Botany by-election starts tomorrow. Chief electoral officer Robert Peden said early and overseas votes could be cast from tomorrow before the actual March 5 poll.
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Advance voting in the Botany by-election starts tomorrow. Chief electoral officer Robert Peden said early and overseas votes could be cast from tomorrow before the actual March 5 poll.
Advance voting in the Botany by-election starts tomorrow.
Chief electoral officer Robert Peden said early and overseas votes could be cast from tomorrow before the actual March 5 poll.
"Advance voting is a particularly important option in a by-election. Unlike a general election, there will be no polling places open outside the Botany electorate on election day, so anyone who will be outside the electorate should vote in advance," Mr Peden said.
"Advance voting makes it easy to vote for anyone who can't get to a polling place on election day. This can be because they are out of the Botany electorate, sick, working or for any other reason."
Apart from advance polling booths in the electorate people can vote at any Registrar of Electors' offices in the country or at the Electoral Commission in Wellington.
In the 2008 general election there were 3182 advance votes and 398 overseas votes in the Botany electorate.
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Tue, 15 Feb 2011
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
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