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From: [FOI #32467 email]

Sent: Friday, October 3, 2025 9:37 PM

To: [Far North District Council request email]

Subject: Official Information request - Mobile Ballot Box

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Dear Chief Executive,

This is a formal request under the LGOIMA regarding the allocation of
mobile ballot box services.

To understand how your statutory duty under s. 42(2)(da) of the LGA 2002
to foster “representative” participation has been met, please provide the
following:

1. Please provide the following allocation data:
a. The final mobile ballot box schedule for each ward.
b. The official elector numbers per ward used to create that schedule.
c. The resulting number of electors per scheduled mobile ballot box
service day for each ward.

2. The final report, memo, or analysis presented to you for approval that
outlines the rationale and schedule for the 2025 mobile ballot box
service. This should include any assessment showing how the final plan
would ensure the service was representative of the elector population in
each ward.

3. The specific criteria used to ensure the placement and timing of mobile
ballot boxes would be representative.

If no formal analysis or report exists demonstrating that the locations
were distributed in a representative way, please provide all
correspondence, advice, or other information that supports the decision
distribute ballot boxes in a way that is not representative of the elector
population in each ward.

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Tēnā koe Joshua Riley

 

Official information request: RFS 4272035 - Re the allocation of mobile
ballot box services

 

Thank you for your information request to the Far North District Council
(‘Council’), received on 6 October 2025. Your request has been referred to
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