A technical glitch left meant results from the Whanganui local body elections were slow to be posted online.
The results were expected to be posted from about 3pm and the district council later apologised for the delays citing a computer failure as the main reason.
There was also the matter
of telling individual candidates the result before they were made public and with a field of 33 for council that also took time.
But the delays irked some locals keen to get the results. On Facebook Hayden Montgomerie with the council website out of action for almost two hours "it's a good thing it's not an emergency".
"But this does little to convince residents of our digital future and makes a mockery of the (district's) new slogan 'all you need (and them some)'," he said.
