Centrist: Chief electoral officer falls on his sword.....

Chief electoral officer falls on his sword: admits failure over Manurewa Marae voting site

The Electoral Commission has admitted mishandling the perceived conflict of interest in using Auckland’s Manurewa Marae as a voting location during the 2023 election, where the marae’s CEO, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, ran successfully for Te Pāti Māori in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The head of the Electoral Commission needs to go

I don’t know Karl Le Quesne the guy who runs the Electoral Commission.  

He seems like a serious sort of man who takes his job seriously which is the kind of person I quite like.  

So I have nothing against him, but he has to lose his job over the stuff ups this election.  

There have been too many stuff ups:

Sean Plunket chats to Karl Le Quesne on voting and the Treaty of Waitangi

Sean Plunket talks to the Chief Electoral Officer Karl Le Quesne about voting and why his staff needs to demonstrate knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi.