{"id":644537,"date":"2026-10-29T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644537\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:48:10","slug":"election-2026-police-investigating-after-two-people-claim-they-voted-multiple-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644537\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Police investigating after two people claim they voted \u2018multiple times\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two people have been referred to police by the Electoral Commission after they claimed on social media to have voted \u201cmultiple times\u201d.<\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Andrew Compton told the Herald police were investigating.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe are making inquiries into this matter; however, it is important to note that at this
\n stage the individuals\u2019 claims have not been verified as accurate,\u201d Compton said.\n <\/p>\n

Police confirmed the claims were made on social media, and did not provide further details of the alleged offence.<\/p>\n

Voting for the 2026 general election opened on Monday, with 175,748 votes cast in the first two days, according to the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2246,74,1558,2741,23552,2371,5903,40924,305,42,17709,1073,2510,43,384,675,38538,1072,8229,14005,40,38,41,39,1237,22052],"class_list":["post-644537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2246","tag-after","tag-been","tag-claim","tag-claimed","tag-commission","tag-election","tag-electoral","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-investigating","tag-media","tag-multiple","tag-news","tag-people","tag-police","tag-referred","tag-social","tag-they","tag-times","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-voted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644537","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=644537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}