With only a week left to vote and a low turnout so far, Tauranga Council candidate Linda Munn is urging Māori to have their say.
"Do we literally physically have to go in and get them enrolled?" she said. "That can be a daunting process having to go into council
and asking them how to get enrolled and how to vote."
In a video interview with Local Focus, the artist and women's refuge advocate said she's running for council after a haunting experience with an elderly man.
"I was coming with my groceries, sitting in my comfy car. Pull out of the driveway and there's a little old man with a sign asking for money and food. When I looked at him straight in the eye there was nothing there except for pure desperation.
"If that was my grandfather, I would be really upset. But people kept driving. I think the vulnerable have become invisible.
