Cross Check of votes in each electorate
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear Electoral Commission,
Would you please share the information on the processes to track and identify a person voting multiple times in the same electorate, ie crosschecking?
For example in the Mt Albert electorate, how is there crosschecking on the electoral role printouts at each voting location to ensure that say, John Clarke, does not visit multiple polling locations and vote more than once on election day?
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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Kia ora Erika
We are acknowledging your Official Information request, requesting:
Would you please share the information on the processes to track and
identify a person voting multiple times in the same electorate, ie
crosschecking?
For example in the Mt Albert electorate, how is there crosschecking on the
electoral role printouts at each voting location to ensure that say, John
Clarke, does not visit multiple polling locations and vote more than once
on election day?
We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable within
the 20 working days.
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Zealand
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Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2026 8:58 am
To: OIA Enquiries <[email address]>
Subject: [OIA] Official Information request - Cross Check of votes in each
electorate
Here is a request from Erika Whittome
([3][FOI #34125 email]).
From: Erika Whittome <[4][FOI #34125 email]>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 8:57 pm
Dear Electoral Commission,
Would you please share the information on the processes to track and
identify a person voting multiple times in the same electorate, ie
crosschecking?
For example in the Mt Albert electorate, how is there crosschecking on the
electoral role printouts at each voting location to ensure that say, John
Clarke, does not visit multiple polling locations and vote more than once
on election day?
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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From: Erika Whittome <[5][FOI #34125 email]>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 8:57 pm
Dear Electoral Commission,
Would you please share the information on the processes to track and
identify a person voting multiple times in the same electorate, ie
crosschecking?
For example in the Mt Albert electorate, how is there crosschecking on the
electoral role printouts at each voting location to ensure that say, John
Clarke, does not visit multiple polling locations and vote more than once
on election day?
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear OIA Enquiries,
Thank you for this information below:
"To begin the official count, Returning Officers create a master roll by consolidating all the electoral
rolls from voting places in each electorate, which lists the names of people who voted in each
electorate. We scrutinise the master roll to identify voters who may have voted more than once in
an electorate."
Would you please provider more details on this information?
1. How does the consolidating or crosschecking take place? Eg Mount albert role has 40,000+ names on it.
2. Does each voting place hold just one copy of the electoral role in a paper printout?
3. how is a master roll created? What is the process for taking paper printouts containing 40,000+ names from multiple voting places and then consolidating them into a master roll?
Yours sincerely,
Erika Whittome
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