Show Notes
There are just four days left to enrol to vote. Electoral Commission teams have been scouring shopping malls, markets, libraries, railway station and even hospitals to find and enrol the 321,000 New Zealanders yet to sign up. Currently 92.1 percent of eligible voters are enrolled. But young people are significantly lagging behind with just 68.6 percent of 18 to 24 year olds signed up to have their say. Reporter Matthew Theunissen joined one of the commission's teams at Auckland's Sylvia Park.
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