Vote-tick probe report due today

The Chief Electoral Office is expecting a report from its lawyer today about whether mentally impaired elderly residents of a Mangere nursing home were prompted to vote Labour.

A nurse complained that she had seen an election official tick voting papers after prompting some Polynesian women to indicate a preference for Labour, but she did not believe they understood what they were being told.

Chief electoral officer David Henry said yesterday that the office's lawyer had interviewed the complainant and the official concerned and was writing his report.

He said no similar complaints had surfaced.

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