20/09/2024
D Watson
By email to:
[FYI request #28185 email]
Dear D Watson
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 2024/59
On Monday, 26 August you made a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA) for the
following information:
In the following OIA you have stated that a number of reviews would be carried out in Q1 and Q2
2024, see the section "steps the electoral commission has taken in response"
https://elections.nz/assets/OIA-requests/2023/OIA-Response-2023-84a_Redacted.pdf
Please provide the documentation for these reviews - the actual documented reviews themselves
-and any information about the work carried out by third parties (consulting firms etc.) or
internally in relation to these reviews - for example responses to the reviews, managment or
board comments, terms or reference etc.
Further can you provide the cost of these reviews.
I have been unable to find a specific update in your report on the 2023 general election.
Were there any other reviews , beyond the ones mentioned in the above OIA, that were carried
out related to issues reported during the election , I am particulary interested in reviews by third
parties and the responses to same.
The four ‘Steps the Electoral Commission has taken in response’ referenced in OIA 2023/84 have
been taken in the form of two reports. These reports are in their final stages but have not yet been
finalised. We are therefore refusing your request under section 18(e) of the Act on the grounds that
this information does not yet exist.
We would like to note that the Report into the 2023 General Election provided a guideline date for
the completion of the above reports, but this was not a hard deadline.
One further report was carried out and is in scope of your request. This was the Electoral
Management System controls assessment, which was an assessment of the financial controls in
place for the Commission’s Election Management System, which is used by field staff during
elections. This report cost $96,169 (GST exclusive) and has been attached to this response.
Electoral Commission
Level 4, 34-42 Manners Street, PO Box 3220, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Telephone +64 4 495 0030
www.vote.nz | www.elections.nz
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months. We will publish this response with your personal details redacted.
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Yours sincerely
Karl Le Quesne
Chief Electoral Officer
Electoral Commission
Level 4, 34-42 Manners Street, PO Box 3220, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Telephone +64 4 495 0030
www.vote.nz | www.elections.nz