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Early voting numbers already double 2014

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Publish Date
Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 5:03PM
You can enrol and vote at the same time, except on election day (Image / Getty Images)
You can enrol and vote at the same time, except on election day (Image / Getty Images)

Early voting numbers already double 2014

Author
NZN,
Publish Date
Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 5:03PM

Early voting numbers for the general election have reached more than 800,000 - double the number of early votes than in 2014, with still more than a day left.

On Wednesday, 133,781 people voted, bringing the total to 806,000 and counting, the Electoral Commission says.

At this stage in 2014, just 435,000 had voted.

The rest of Thursday and Friday will be the last chance for people not yet enrolled to do so and vote early.

Early voting allows voters to enrol at the booth if they haven't done so already.

"You can't enrol on election day, Saturday, September 23," chief electoral officer Alicia Wright said.

There are still more than 340,400 eligible voters who are yet to sign up.

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