Quote Originally Posted by moka View Post
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/09-10-2023/how-the-voting-tally-looks-after-a-week-of-advance-voting

After a week of advance voting and less than a week left until election day, 607,255 people have cast their ballots.
82,524 people voted on Sunday.
Advance voting numbers for this election are still trailing 2020 numbers. After nine days of advance voting in 2020, 1,157,209 votes had been cast as of October 8, 2020.
The orange line shows how early voting compares with recent elections.
I wonder if it is because Labour had a landslide, first time in the history of MMP, majority win in 2020, so stands to reason a lot of people voted early. This time we're back to the uncertainty of a fine balance and possibly another king maker election (who's over that?, MMP sucks), people are less certain so not voting early, or maybe we might have the lowest election turnout, early or on the day, ever for an election as people are just over this. Still, early voting is ahead of 2017.