Jordan Bunton (left) and Emily Griffin, Kamo High School Year 13 students, in a workshop with Northland registrar of electors Deborah Darton. Photo/John Stone
Jordan Bunton (left) and Emily Griffin, Kamo High School Year 13 students, in a workshop with Northland registrar of electors Deborah Darton. Photo/John Stone
With few youths on the general electoral roll, Northland students are being encouraged to sign up.
Kamo High School students yesterday presented a forum informing fellow year-13 students about the enrolment process.
Elections New Zealand provisional statistics based on 2013 census data show only 65.29 per cent of Northland youthsaged 18 to 24 are on the general electoral roll.
Northland registrar of electors Deborah Darton, who has been visiting Northland schools with information about enrolling, said schools usually preferred her to do the forum but getting students to do their own was even better.
"We write to 33 schools [in Northland] and give them the choice to get students to do the forum, so we go in and train them, or to get us to do it. Some students prefer listening to their peers rather than listening to me preaching," she said.
