Māori Electoral Option 2006 - What's your choice?
Te Tai Tokerau or Northland?
New Lynn or Tamaki Makaurau?
Ikaroa Rawhiti or Bay of Plenty?
Otago or Te Tai Tonga?
These are the sorts of questions the Electoral Enrolment Centre wants tens of thousands of Māori to ask themselves and their whānau now they will have received their personalised Māori Electoral Option packs in the mail.
“Every one of the 380,000 Māori Electoral Option packs has been mailed to every person identified as of Māori descent who is enrolled to vote,” says Murray Wicks, National Manager of the Electoral Enrolment Centre.
“The packs make it easy for Māori to choose whether to be enrolled on a General or Māori electoral roll.
“If you’re a New Zealand Māori and haven’t got a pack then you’re not correctly enrolled to vote. Fill in an enrolment form today and choose whether to be on the General roll or the Māori roll when you fill in the form,” says Mr Wicks.
To get an enrolment form freetext your name and address to 3676, call 0800 ENROL NOW (0800 36 76 56) or go to any PostShop. You can also enrol or update your details online at www.elections.org.nz
Māori need to make their choice now.
“If you’re happy with the electoral roll type you are on, don’t do anything. If you want to change, check your details on the form inside the Māori Electoral Option pack that you got in the mail and correct them if needed. Print the roll type you want to change to – Māori or General and sign and date the form and send it back,” says Mr Wicks.
If people receive a pack for someone who no longer lives at the address, the pack should be forwarded on or marked 'return to sender' and posted back.