{"id":144243,"date":"2025-11-20T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:56:10","slug":"electoral-fraud-allegations-in-auckland-board-election-probed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144243\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral fraud allegations in Auckland board election probed by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auckland police are investigating 16 complaints relating to alleged electoral fraud in this year’s council elections for the \u014ctara-Papatoetoe Local Board.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed two separate investigations are underway into the allegations. <\/p>\n

“We are investigating 16 complaints forwarded to us from Election Services,” said Counties Manukau Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers. <\/p>\n

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A person votes at the ballot box (file image). (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Election Services ran local elections in the Auckland region in October.<\/p>\n

Vickers said the police “investigation remains in the early stages”.<\/p>\n

Separately from the police investigation, a petition of inquiry filed by unsuccessful candidate Vi Hausia is set to be heard at the Manukau District Court tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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Manukau District Court (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

He alleged anomalies with voting patterns in the Papatoetoe subdivision.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Election Services told 1News: “As the matter is before the courts, we have no comment at this time.”<\/p>\n

Voter turnout in the Papatoetoe subdivision rose by around 7% on 2022 figures. <\/p>\n

Overall turnout across local board areas in Auckland fell in this year’s elections compared to three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland police are investigating 16 complaints relating to alleged electoral fraud in this year’s council elections for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-144243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}