Did the Electoral Commission cause Labour to lose Tāmaki Makaurau?

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Did the Electoral Commission cause Labour to lose Tāmaki Makaurau?

This image from The Facts is very powerful. It shows how much of an outlier the result at Manurewa Marae was. Now maybe it is just a coincidence, and that everyone who voted there would have voted the same way elsewhere and still voted. But the fact the TPM candidate was the chief executive of the marae means we can never be sure. The vote margin at the Marae is eight times more than the margin of the overall electorate. What we can safely concl…