Highly charged election nears end, with lower turnout and new theft claims

Highly charged election nears end, with lower turnout and new theft claims

Ten voters in the new election for a south Auckland local board have told the returning officer their postal voting papers have been stolen – but no attempt has been made to use them to lodge a vote as yet. The Papatoetoe subdivision of the Ōtara-Papatoetoe local board of Auckland Council is voting again after a court ordered a second vote following allegations of fraud in last October’s election. The quashing of the election result and directio…