Dozens of electioneering complaints

Published: 6:36PM Sunday September 18, 2005 Source: RNZ

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The Electoral Office has received more than 100 complaints about illegal politicking taking place on election day.

Assistant chief electoral officer Robert Peden says dozens of people contacted his office on Saturday to complain about electioneering taking place on polling day.

Peden says the complaints were about pamphlet deliveries in a number of electorates, but there did not seem to be a single culprit. He says his office will investigate the complaints in the next fortnight.

The Green Party plans to formally complain about Exclusive Brethren pamphlets it claims were delivered on election day in the Wigram electorate. Campaign manager Russell Norman says party members in Wigram say the pamphlets turned up in their letterboxes after they had cleared the morning's mail.

Norman says he has only heard of this happening in Wigram and does not know whether the blame lies with the Exclusive Brethren or whoever was delivering the pamphlets. But he says it's a clear breach of the law and he wants it investigated.

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