Kia ora,

Thank you for your email - this is to confirm it has been sent to the team best-placed to respond.

Kind regards
Mike

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From: D Watson <[FOI #27733 email]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2024 10:34 AM
To: enquiry <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - OIA request for information and documentation supplied to your office by the Electoral Commission to support your audits.

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Dear Office of the Controller and Auditor-General,

I note your review of the Electoral Commission.I am seeking to understand how the election was governed and managed. You point out in your findings that risk management and reporting leading into the election was insufficient. This tallies with responses I have received from the Electoral Commission though I have found that official information has been hard to obtain from them.
I am particularly interested in what detail (documentation etc.) you received from the Electoral Commission relating to the month prior to the election, the month of the election and the month after the election and anything related to the work carried out by the "General Election Delivery Taskforce".

I would also appreciate copies of any other information you recieved from the Electoral Commission - information that you have have already collated to support your report for example notes interviews, commentary, official docs etc.

Thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully,

D Watson

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Tçnâ koe

 

We have received your request for disclosure of documents provided to the
Office of the Auditor-General by the Electoral Commission as part of work
on counting errors in the 2023 election.

 

For your information, due to the confidential nature of much of our work,
the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) does not apply to our office.
Instead, the Public Audit Act 2001 [1]gives us discretion about what
information we release, given that most of our work and information is
subject to obligations of confidentiality.

 

The Electoral Commission was required to provide us with the information
we requested under the Public Audit Act 2001 (PAA). When we exercise our
statutory powers to require organisations to provide us with information,
we treat the information received as confidential, while our findings are
reported publicly.

 

The Ombudsman has accepted, “as a general proposition ,… that an agency’s
ability to discharge its functions effectively is in the public good.
Therefore, the future supply of information will be in the public interest
if it materially enhances the agency’s ability ‘to carry out its statutory
function or some other lawful public purpose.” ([2]Confidentiality: A
guide to section 9(2)(ba) of the OIA and section 7(2)(c) of the LGOIMA,
p13.)

 

We will therefore not be providing the information you requested.  If you
have concerns about not receiving an adequate response from the Electoral
Commission, you could raise this with the Ombudsman.

 

Ngâ mihi maioha

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: enquiry
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 2:31 PM
To: D Watson <[FOI #27733 email]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - OIA request for information
and documentation supplied to your office by the Electoral Commission to
support your audits.

 

Kia ora,

 

Thank you for your email - this is to confirm it has been sent to the team
best-placed to respond.

 

Kind regards

Mike

 

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From: D Watson <[9][FOI #27733 email]>

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Dear Office of the Controller and Auditor-General,

 

I note your review of the Electoral Commission.I am seeking to understand
how the election was governed and managed. You point out in your findings
that risk management and reporting leading into the election was
insufficient. This tallies with responses I have received from the
Electoral Commission though I have found that official information has
been hard to obtain from them.

I am particularly interested in what detail (documentation etc.) you
received from the Electoral Commission relating to the month prior to the
election, the month of the election and the month after the election and
anything related to the work carried out by the "General Election Delivery
Taskforce".

 

I would also appreciate copies of any other information you recieved from
the Electoral Commission - information that you have have already collated
to support your report for example notes interviews, commentary, official
docs etc.

 

Thank you for your time.

Yours faithfully,

 

D Watson

 

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