Need help to enrol

Need help to enrol?

Getting someone to help you enrol

A support person can help you complete your form

Ask your local registrar of electors to help you

If you’re acting on behalf of someone who can’t complete their enrolment form

Helping someone with a physical impairment

Helping someone with a mental impairment

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Need help to enrol?

Find out who can help you enrol to vote, and how you can act on behalf of someone who can’t complete their enrolment form.

Getting someone to help you enrol

You can ask someone you know to help you enrol, or ask your local registrar of electors.

A support person can help you complete your form

You can ask a support person, such as a friend or family member, to help you complete your enrolment form, or to complete your form for you.

It’s best to enrol early as it makes voting much easier and faster, but you can also enrol on election day. Your support person can help you enrol at your local voting place or help you to enrol online. If you enrol online on election day, you’ll be sent a confirmation email. Take the email with you to your voting place.

Whichever way you enrol, you need to sign the form. If you can’t complete or sign the form because of a physical or mental impairment, ask your support person to read the information further down this page, as they may be able to act on your behalf.

Ask your local registrar of electors to help you

Your local registrar of electors looks after the electoral roll for the area you live in. They’re available to help you enrol and answer your questions about enrolling. Find the contact details of your local registrar of electors at our website vote.nz

If you’re acting on behalf of someone who can’t complete their enrolment form

If you know someone who can’t complete and sign their enrolment form because of a physical or mental impairment, you may be able to help.

Helping someone with a physical impairment

If you’re enrolled to vote, you can complete and sign an enrolment form for someone who can’t do it themselves because of a physical or mental impairment, you may be able to help.

Helping someone with a mental impairment

You can complete and sign an enrolment form for someone who can’t do it themselves because of a mental impairment if you:

are enrolled to vote

have enduring power of attorney

are the person’s appointed welfare guardian.

You’ll also need to fill in another form so we can contact you as the representative of the person with a mental impairment. Call us on 0800 36 76 56 to get a form sent to you.

Upload both forms to us at vote.nz or email enrol@vote.nz

Call us on 0800 36 76 56 if you have any questions about completing an enrolment form on somebody else’s behalf.