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Electoral agencies' areas of responsibility

A narrative description of the responsibilities of each electoral agency is provided above under "About".

Please note that the agencies have no responsibility for the conduct of local council and district health board elections, other than the updating and provision of electoral roll data by the Electoral Enrolment Centre.

EEC = Electoral Enrolment Centre
EC = Electoral Commission
CEO = Chief Electoral Office
MOJ = Ministry of Justice

 

Responsibility

EEC

EC

CEO

MOJ

Information for electors on enrolment

x

   
Enrolment of voters (opportunity and encouragement)

x

   
Production/maintenance of electoral rolls and habitation indexes

x

   
Supply of electronic lists of electors & walk lists (residences with no enrolment) to parties and candidates

x

   
Hosting of the Elections website

x

   
Conduct of Maori Electoral Option

x

   
Verifying, by sample, that signatures on CIR petitions are those of enrolled electors

x

   
Supply of lists of qualified electors to Courts for jury rolls

x

   
Registration of Political Parties/logos 

x

  
Allocation to parties of election broadcasting time and money; payment of parties' election broadcasting accounts; receipt ofbroadcasters' returns of election programmes 

x

  
Supervision of annual returns of donations and returns of election expenses - political parties 

x

  
Public education and information on electoral matters 

x

  
Conduct of Parliamentary general elections and by-elections    
  • information to voters, parties and candidates
  

x

 
  • receipt of writ
  

x

 
  • calling for and receipt of nominations (including bulk nominations)
  

x

 
  • designation and staffing of polling places
  

x

 
  • acceptance or rejection of party lists (general elections)
  

x

 
  • ballot papers-production
  

x

 
  • voting (advance, on election day)
  

x

 
  • identification of dual votes
  

x

 
  • preliminary and official counts
  

x

 
  • qualification of special votes

x

 

x

 
  • declaration of results
  

x

 
  • recounts
  

x

 
  • return of writ
  

x

 
  • allocation of members from party lists (general elections)
  

x

 
  • supervision of returns of candidate expenses and returns of donations
  

x

 
Conduct of referendum (government initiated and citizen-initiated)  

x

 
Filling vacancies from the party list  

x

 
Membership of the Representation Commission (electoral boundaries)  

x

 
Administration of the Electoral Act (including policy advice to Ministers)   

x

Advice to Select Committees

x

x

x

x