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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Vi Hausia: Former ÅŒtara-Papatoetoe Local Board Deputy Chair on the overturning of the Papatoetoe election due to manipulated voting papers
Description: Questions over whether the postal voting system is working after a South Auckland local body election was overturned. Judge Richard McIlraith ruled irregularities altered the outcome of the Papatoetoe vote for the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board. The case involved stolen voting papers and fraudulent use, and a new election must be held by April 9. Former Deputy Chair Vi Hausia told Heather du Plessis-Allan this was discovered when names of people who didn't cast a vote, showed in the system. He says groups of people also went to cast a special vote after not r...